Use this code to launch your gazebo world

<!-- launch empty_world.launch -->
<include file="$(find gazebo_ros)/launch/empty_world.launch" >
    <arg name="world_name" value="$(arg world_name)"/>
    <arg name="debug" value="$(arg debug)" />
    <arg name="gui" value="$(arg gui)" />
    <arg name="paused" value="$(arg paused)"/>
    <arg name="use_sim_time" value="$(arg use_sim_time)"/>
    <arg name="headless" value="$(arg headless)"/>
</include>

Hi,

So I worked on solving this issue. It was mainly two problems:

1) The Gazebo client wasnt being launched. Thats because this simulation version is intended for use in ROSDevelopementStudio, so by default the GUI isnt launched for performance reasons. But even if you launched the version that should open the gui, current versions of gazebo just crash, at least in Kinetic Gazebo7.

2) The Environment variables that set up where the models and plugins are in this particular simulation are set outside the ros package system, so this causes other issues, like not appearing the parrot drone mesh or not having any collisions.

All these issues are explained with detail in this video: VIDEO

The repo updated with the solution you can find it here: DRONE CONSTRUCT GIT, kinetic-gazebo7 Branch

You will also need to download this package Spawn_robot_tools: Spawn Robot Tools

To make it work, I created a script called start_simulation_localy.sh inside drone_construct/scripts that sets the local variables correctly and launched the simulation with the GUI enables and the simulation unpaused:

#!/bin/sh

#find where the 'sjtu_drone' is
pack_path=$(rospack find sjtu_drone)

#export the gazebo pathes
export GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH=$pack_path/models:$GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH
export GAZEBO_RESOURCE_PATH=$pack_path:/usr/share/gazebo-3.0:/usr/share/gazebo- 
4.0:/usr/share/gazebo_models:$GAZEBO_RESOURCE_PATH
export GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH=$pack_path/plugins:$GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH

#call the client of Gazebo
roslaunch drone_construct main.launch gui:=true paused:=false

And the sjtu_drone package has been modified to use a different gazebo launch system to avoid problems localy. This is because the original simulation uses gazebo binaries to launch everything and not gazebo_ros.

So you just have to do the following and it should work:

 mkdir -p ~/parrot_ws/src;cd ~/parrot_ws/src
 git clone https://RDaneelOlivaw@bitbucket.org/theconstructcore/parrot_ardrone.git;cd parrot_ardrone;git checkout kinetic-gazebo7;~/parrot_ws/src
 git clone https://RDaneelOlivaw@bitbucket.org/theconstructcore/spawn_robot_tools.git
 cd ~/parrot_ws
catkin_make;source devel/setup.bash;rospack profile
rosrun drone_construct start_simulation_localy.sh

You should then get something like this:

You can then make the drone take off and land publishing in these topics:

 rostopic pub /drone/takeoff std_msgs/Empty "{}"
 rostopic pub /drone/land std_msgs/Empty "{}"

And then move it around with this ros binary ( go up , stop and down with T , G and B keys. The other keys are the standard keyboard teleop use):

 rosrun teleop_twist_keyboard teleop_twist_keyboard.py

Hope this was usefull.

... logging to /home/hunter/.ros/log/5b1e9488-edbd-11e9-9914-5800e38ca05f/roslaunch-hunter-Aspire-E5-575-13468.log

rosrun drone_construct start_simulation_localy.sh ... logging to /home/yogeshwar/.ros/log/3c2afab4-8cee-11ea-a845-34e8948adf8d/roslaunch-yogeshwar-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15IKB-32046.log Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile. Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

started roslaunch server http://yogeshwar-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15IKB:46607/

SUMMARY

PARAMETERS * /rosdistro: kinetic * /rosversion: 1.12.14

NODES / gazebo (sjtu_drone/start_gzserver) sjtu_drone_spawn_urdf (gazebo_ros/spawn_model)

auto-starting new master process[master]: started with pid [32056] ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311

setting /run_id to 3c2afab4-8cee-11ea-a845-34e8948adf8d process[rosout-1]: started with pid [32069] started core service [/rosout] process[gazebo-2]: started with pid [32072] process[sjtu_drone_spawn_urdf-3]: started with pid [32078] SpawnModel script started [gazebo-2] process has died [pid 32072, exit code 255, cmd /home/yogeshwar/parrot_ws/src/parrot_ardrone/sjtu_drone/scripts/start_gzserver /home/yogeshwar/parrot_ws/src/parrot_ardrone/drone_construct/worlds/ardrone_igniteworld.world __name:=gazebo __log:=/home/yogeshwar/.ros/log/3c2afab4-8cee-11ea-a845-34e8948adf8d/gazebo-2.log]. log file: /home/yogeshwar/.ros/log/3c2afab4-8cee-11ea-a845-34e8948adf8d/gazebo-2*.log [INFO] [1588476544.626176]: Loading model XML from file [INFO] [1588476544.627679]: Waiting for service /gazebo/spawn_sdf_model

Please help me with this error