Creating local model of turtlebot_description package about gzweb HOT 7 OPEN

Original comment by Yuki Furuta (Bitbucket: furushchev).

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Original comment by Ian Chen (Bitbucket: Ian Chen, GitHub: iche033).

The problem is most likely that turtlebot_description is in urdf format. Currently gzweb supports sdf only. What are the files in the turtlebot_description folder in assets?

Loading of models in gzweb is specific to gazebo model dir structure at the moment, and supports collada files only.

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Original comment by Ian Chen (Bitbucket: Ian Chen, GitHub: iche033).

We have this turtlebot_description model working in gzweb a while back, have not tested it recently though.

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Original comment by Kei Okada (Bitbucket: k-okada).

@furushchev, did you use spawn_model ? to publish robot model in gazebo from urdf? if so, it uses absolute path from package:// so you have to convert to model://, see ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs#288 or use something like

  <!-- push robot_description to factory and spawn robot in gazebo -->
  <node name="urdf_spawner" pkg="gazebo_ros" type="spawn_model"
        args="-z 1.0 -unpause -urdf -model robot -file /tmp/robot.gazebo.urdf -package_to_model" respawn="false" output="screen">
    <param name="dummy_to_generate_gazebo_urdf_file"
           command="rosrun xacro xacro.py -o /tmp/robot.gazebo.urdf $(arg model)" />
    <param name="dummy_to_convert_package_to_model"
           command="sed -i s@package://@model://@g /tmp/robot.gazebo.urdf" />
  </node>

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Original comment by Harmish Khambhaita (Bitbucket: harmishhk).

i am having similar problem for rendering baxter robot in gzweb. (as explained in this tutorial)

i cloned baxter_common from here, and added a model.config file inside baxter_description.

after executing following,

#!bash

source /usr/share/gazebo-5.0/setup.sh
export GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH=`rospack find baxter_common`:$GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH
cd /path/to/gzweb
./deploy.sh -m local

i get whole baxter_description directory copied to /path/to/gzweb/http/client/assets

the model renders just fine in gzclient but showing only few parts of the baxter robot in gzweb, as shown in the image belwo

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Original comment by Ricardo Tellez (Bitbucket: TheConstruct).

Hey Harmish,
it looks like your problem is exactly the same as the Yuki.
Looking inside the baxter_description at the link you provided, I see that the urdf/baxter.urdf contains the tag package:// when defining the mesh filenames.

If you want to load the model into the gzweb, it should say model://
For that, you have two options: either you change manually package by model, or you use the option -package_to_model with the urdf_spawner (as indicated by Kei Okada).

Luck!

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Original comment by ahmed (Bitbucket: ahmedkhrifi).

i have a model with extension urdf,then i need to import this model to GazeboWeb!!

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