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Hello, I want to simulate a glass wall in Gazebo and see that the laser scanner can't detect it. In my model I tried to give different laser_retro and transparency settings. In Rviz I always see that the transparent wall reflects the laser scans. Can anybody shed some light on this ?

EDIT

I use Gazebo version 7.4 ROS Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04

Below is the wall that is supposed not to reflect laser scans.

  <model name="glass1">
    <static>true</static>
    <pose>7 2 1 0 0 0</pose>
    <link name="link">
      <collision name="visual">
         <laser_retro>0.5</laser_retro>
         <geometry><box><size>0.1 2 2</size></box></geometry>
      </collision>
      <visual name="visual1">
         <transparency>1</transparency>
         <geometry><box><size>0.1 2 2</size></box></geometry>
              <material>
              <script><name>Gazebo/RedTransparent</name></script>
             </material>
      </visual>
    </link>
  </model>

Here is the laser plugin definition:

<gazebo reference="hokuyo_link">
<material>Gazebo/Red</material>
<sensor type="gpu_ray" name="hokuyo">
 <pose>0 0 0 0 0 0</pose>
 <visualize>false</visualize>
 <update_rate>40</update_rate>
  <ray>
    <scan>
      <horizontal>
         <samples>720</samples>
          <resolution>1</resolution>
          <min_angle>-1.570796</min_angle>
          <max_angle>1.570796</max_angle>
      </horizontal>
    </scan>
    <range>
       <min>0.10</min> <max>30.0</max>
       <resolution>0.01</resolution>
    </range>
 </ray>
 <plugin name="gpu_laser" filename="libgazebo_ros_gpu_laser.so">
    <topicName>/scan</topicName>
    <frameName>hokuyo_link</frameName>
 </plugin>
</sensor>
</gazebo>

Asked by bustun on 2017-01-26 07:16:16 UTC

Answer 1

So basically the gpu laser will only detect a link's visual. One solution to your problem would be to simply delete the

<visual name="visual1">
...
</visual>

in your sdf. But you would not be able to see the object in the simulation. Another possibility is to delete the

<collision name="visual">
...
</collision>

Element in your sdf and use the non gpu version of the sensor. This sensor will only detect a link's collision and you will be still able to see the object in the simulation. To do this you also need to change the sensor type:

<sensor type="ray" name="hokuyo">

and the plugin:

<plugin name="gazebo_ros_head_hokuyo_controller" filename="libgazebo_ros_laser.so">

Asked by wentz on 2018-09-06 09:46:38 UTC

GPU laser sensor reflects transparent glass material

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