Hi, super dumb question... I'm writing a sensor plugin (subclass SensorPlugin) that wraps an Altimeter sensor and I need access to SimTime(). How do I get a pointer to the world object to call SimTime()? I see it in the sensor API (include/gazebo-9/gazebo/sensors/Sensor.hh) but it's protected. Is there some magic global variable that I'm missing?
It's not recommended to access the world from a sensor plugin because sensors don't run in the physics thread.
Maybe what you want are Altimeter::LastUpdateTime or Altimeter::LastMeasurementTime?
Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected as much. Altimeter::LastMeasurementTime is always 0 and Altimeter::LastUpdateTime seems 10-20ms later than ros_node->now(), which itself is later than Camera::LastMeasurementTime. Any advice? Perhaps I need to write a camera sensor plugin that will give me consistent time across multiple sensors? Or fix Altimeter::LastMeasurementTime?
My workaround (so far): I hacked up a version of gazebo_ros_pkgs that use wall time, rather than SimTime or ROS time. While not ideal, all sensors report the same time. If there are other good options I'd love to hear about them!
Asked: 2019-09-23 23:09:54 -0600
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Last updated: Sep 23 '19
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