bumper sensor topic not available
Hi,
I've added a bumper sensor to husky by adding the following code snippet to 'husky.urdf.xacro'. Now, when I spawn the robot, I can see the front bumper turning orange (which means that the contact sensor has been detected). However, I cannot see the desired topic being published in my topics list. Any idea why would this happen ?
Config: Ubuntu 14.04, ROS - Indigo, Gazebo - 2.2
<gazebo reference="front_bumper">
<sensor name="front_bumper_contact" type="contact">
<always_on>1</always_on>
<update_rate>100</update_rate>
<contact>
<!-- When using ROS Indigo and Gazebo 2.2.3, the name specified here
must be <link name>_collision. -->
<collision>front_bumper_collision</collision>
</contact>
<plugin filename="libgazebo_ros_bumper.so" name="front_bumper_gazebo_ros_bumper_controller">
<always_on>1</always_on>
<update_rate>100</update_rate>
<frameName>front_bumper_link</frameName>
<bumperTopicName>front_bumper_contact_state</bumperTopicName>
</plugin>
</sensor>
<material>Gazebo/Orange</material>
</gazebo>
Check the code that generates libgazebo_ros_bumper.so. Make sure the bumpterTopicName is the correct xml tag to use.