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Usually, this happens if the Gazebo model has fixed joints and there are some parts with highly different inertia scales (or even just shapes, e.g. the inertia is very "thin" in one dimension). In such cases, it is better to either edit the inertia of all robot parts to be more of a similar scale, or the lump the fixed joints so that they are no longer joints (basically the approach described in the question).