About the Maintainer: Jose Luis Rivero is the current maintainer of this site. He has been a robotics DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer for the last 15 years with a special focus on the ROS and Gazebo projects while working for Open Robotics/Open Source Robotics Foundation. Currently a PMC (Project Management Committee) member for the Gazebo and Infrastructure projects for the Open Source Robotics Alliance and a Debian Maintainer. Also a co-founder of Honu Robotics.
Sensors in Gazebo
Suggest editsFinding Gazebo Sensors
List of Gazebo Supported Sensors
Official list of Sensors available in gz-sensors
Raw list of Gazebo sensor resources and examples
Sensor search in the tutorial party resources listed for Gazebo community to be reviewed
Camera sensors
Depth camera
Example code and depth camera tutorial in the gz-rendering repository
Thermal camera
Supports objects with uniform or variable surface temperatures
Processing camera images
Thread with options about how to retrieve and process camera images
Laser sensors
Lidar sensor
Tutorial for the Lidar sensor plugin
Laser retroreflection
Example SDF supporting objects detected by Lidar that have custom retroreflection
Multi-LiDAR simulation plugin with hardware-accelerated ray tracing
ROSCon24 presentation on multi-LiDAR plugin using WGPU for hardware-accelerated ray tracing across AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, dramatically boosting simulation speed
Other sensors
Joint force-torque sensor
Reports forces and torques on a joint.
Contact sensor
Tutorial for the Gazebo contact sensor plugin
Battery sensor
Tutorial for a battery system keeps track of the battery charge on a robot model.
Gazebo sensors and ROS
Examples and tutorials for Gazebo sensors on ROS 2
Examples and images about the use Gazebo sensors in ROS 2 with the ros_gz bridge
Developing sensors
Creating custom sensors
How to create custom sensors to be used by Gazebo Sim
Documentation Index
Community-curated resources
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