ARIAC conveyor belt in other projects?

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Hello.

I am trying to get the conveyor belt plugin from Ariac competition to work on my own project, where I need to simulate a conveyor belt moving items.

Is it possible? I have cloned the ariac data from BitBucket, added my own package in the source.

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I created a simple test conveyor, but I don't see any topics popping up.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<robot name="conveyor_system">
  <link name="frame_link">
    <inertial>
      <origin rpy="0.0 0.0 0.0" xyz="0.0 0.0 0.0"/>
      <mass value="1"/>
      <inertia ixx="1" ixy="0.0" ixz="0.0" iyy="1" iyz="0.0" izz="1"/>
    </inertial>
    <visual>
      <origin rpy="0 0 0" xyz="0.505 0.0 0.05"/>
      <geometry>
        <box size="1.01 0.21 0.1"/>
      </geometry>
      <material name="silver">
        <color rgba="0.7 0.7 0.7 1"/>
      </material>
    </visual>
    <collision>
      <origin rpy="0 0 0" xyz="0.505 0.0 0.05"/>
      <geometry>
        <box size="1.01 0.21 0.1"/>
      </geometry>
    </collision>
  </link>
  <joint name="belt_joint" type="prismatic">
    <parent link="frame_link"/>
    <child link="belt_link"/>
    <axis xyz="0 0 0"/>
    <limit effort="1000.0" lower="-0.5" upper="0.5" velocity="0.5"/>
    <origin rpy="0 0 0" xyz="0 0 0"/>
  </joint>
  <link name="belt_link">
    <inertial>
      <origin rpy="0.0 0.0 0.0" xyz="0.0 0.0 0.0"/>
      <mass value="1"/>
      <inertia ixx="1" ixy="0.0" ixz="0.0" iyy="1" iyz="0.0" izz="1"/>
    </inertial>
    <visual>
      <origin rpy="0 0 0" xyz="0.505 0.0 0.205"/>
      <geometry>
        <box size="1 0.2 0.01"/>
      </geometry>
      <material name="green">
        <color rgba="0 1 0 1"/>
      </material>
    </visual>
    <collision>
      <origin rpy="0 0 0" xyz="0.505 0.0 0.05"/>
      <geometry>
        <box size="1.01 0.21 0.1"/>
      </geometry>
    </collision>
  </link>
  <gazebo reference="belt_link">
    <material>Gazebo/Green</material>
  </gazebo>
  <gazebo>
    <static>true</static>
    <plugin filename="libRosConveyorBeltPlugin.so" name="conveyor_belt_plugin">
      <robot_namespace>/tbelt</robot_namespace>
      <enable_topic>/tbelt/enable</enable_topic>
      <population_rate_modifier_topic>/tbelt/population/rate_modifier</population_rate_modifier_topic>
      <link>belt_link</link>
      <power>0</power>
      <update_rate>10</update_rate>
    </plugin>
  </gazebo>
</robot>

I would appreciate any help, I will also submit more information if needed, since I don't know what to post.