Installing and Setup Gazebo

Gazebo, Gazebo-Classic and Ignition

★ Alter Ego of Gazebo

ICRA 2023 presentation about Gazebo, versions and features

Why the Ignition name was replaced by Gazebo

Official forum post explaining why and how Ignition became Gazebo

Feature comparison Gazebo Classic vs Gazebo

Feature comparison between Gazebo Classic and latest Gazebo

Migrating from Gazebo Classic

Gazebo main documentation for migrating code from Gazebo classic

Installing on Linux, MacOSX and Windows

★ Choosing a Gazebo release (collection of Gazebo libs)

Main page with information on supported versions and platforms

★ Supported OSX versions

Which OSX versions are supported by Gazebo

★ Brew installation

Guide to go through all the steps to install Gazebo using the Brew package manager

Brew Gazebo repository

Github repo containing the brew metadata about all Gazebo related packages.

Installation of latest Gazebo libraries on Windows

Instruction to install the different Gazebo libraries on Windows using binaries

★ Multiplatform conda-forge Gazebo installation

Conda introduction and how to install Gazebo using it

★ WSLg with GPU support for Gazebo Garden and Harmonic

Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI installation with GPU support

★ Install ROS 2 Jazzy and the Gazebo bridge on Windows

Easy installation using the conda-forge Robotstack packages of ROS 2 Jazzy and the Gazebo Harmonic ros_gz bridge

Gazebo on virtualized environments

★ Docker on Nvidia for Gazebo releases using ign-rocker

A set of rocker extensions that enable the usage of Gazebo libraries inside Docker

Gzdev plugin for simple docker access in different Gazebo releases

Plugin for gzdev that simplies accessing to a virtualized Gazebo collection environment

★ Use Gazebo in Google Colab

Gazebo Ionic runing in the cloud of Google Colab

Gazebo + ROS installation on Ubuntu Linux

★ Installing Gazebo with ROS

Main page documenting all the options of installing Gazebo and ROS together

Large environments resources

★ Gazebo Simulator Levels

Feature thatallows loading and unloading objects in simulation according to their proximity to the robot

Distributed Gazebo simulations

Distribute the simulation among 1 or more processes and machines. Might be harder to setup to gain performance.

Gazebo on HPC cluster

Post with notes about using Gazebo in an HPC cluster

Gazebo Trivial Physics Engine (TPE)

Physics for fast simulation of higher-order fleet dynamics without real physics.

Creating model populations programatically

ERB Templates in SDFormat to create model populations

Building Map Generator

Open-RMF GUI tool to generate large building maps ready to use in Gazebo

★ Optimizing Gazebo simulation - Challenges in building complex environments

ROSCon24 presentation covering typical performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies for complex simulation environments in Gazebo

★ OpenRMF demos

Open Robotics Middleware Framework large scenarios demos for Gazebo and Gazebo Classic

Headless simulations and CI

★ setup-gazebo GitHub Action

GitHub action in the marketplace to install Gazebo in all platforms

Headless EGL rendering (XVFB + VirtualGL)

Workaround to get headless EGL rendering XVFB with an EGL render from VirtualGL

Digital Elevation Maps

Hints to use the Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) support in Gazebo Sim

★ Gazebo Test Fixture helper

Handy code for using Gazebo in a test suite.

Reset Simulations in Gazebo

Tutorial for reseting the simulation to time zero.