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Wind simulation in gazebo 7

Hi, I'm writing a paper and using gazebo 7 to simulate a quadrotor. One of the reviewers asked for clarification on how the wind simulation happens. Does it simply add a number (proportional to the wind velocity) to the robot's current velocity value? does it use force?

Maybe this question regards the inner workings of the physics engine and I should ask it somewhere else. I don't know.

Anyway, thank you very much!

Asked by araujor on 2020-06-01 06:49:46 UTC

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Hello, here's the initial pull request where the wind was implemented:

https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/pull-requests/1985/added-wind-support/diff#chg-gazebo/physics/Wind.cc https://osrf-migration.github.io/gazebo-gh-pages/#!/osrf/gazebo/pull-requests/1985/page/1

There's some code to parse SDF, tests, etc. but the relevant part for your question is in WindPlugin.cc . You'll notice that a call to AddRelativeForce() is applied to all the links of the model that are affected by the wind.

Asked by Carlos Agüero on 2020-06-01 10:33:42 UTC

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Thank you! 'll check it out!

Asked by araujor on 2020-09-21 12:03:45 UTC