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2015-09-18 09:35:36 -0600	answered a question	Differential driven robot warping when driving forward and stuttering when driving backwards We found the solution: I made a mistake when I set the origin of the body's and wheel's inertial. I set it to the same offset as I set in the joints but the origin of the inertial is its joint. As it is for the visual and collision. Now I set the origin of each interial to xyz="0 0 0". In addition we added the axis parameter to the finn's joints and set it to xyz="1 1 1" together with a modification of the joint-type to continuous. Cheers, F4B1
2015-09-18 04:26:05 -0600	commented answer	Differential driven robot warping when driving forward and stuttering when driving backwards Your plugin looks great but we want to play around with different friction, mass, motor-power, etc. later on so I'm not sure if your plugin would help or not in this case.
2015-09-18 04:01:05 -0600	commented answer	Differential driven robot warping when driving forward and stuttering when driving backwards I implemented the fdir1 parameter in the hope it could maybe fix my problem but it changed nothing and after your answer I will kick it out. Or should I set it to "0 0 0" ?
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2015-09-18 03:39:05 -0600	commented answer	Differential driven robot warping when driving forward and stuttering when driving backwards Hi Stefan, the spheres (called finn's in the model) have mu1 and mu2 = 0. If i drive slowly backwards they slide over the ground but if I start driving backwards a bit faster the tail goes up into the air, drops back and the sphere (finn) hits the ground. At this point, the robot stutter and the tail get's thrown up into the air. My video shows that. It's like a ball hitting a soft ground but I want a really hard ball hitting a hard ground. Like stone on stone.
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2015-09-17 09:26:54 -0600	asked a question	Differential driven robot warping when driving forward and stuttering when driving backwards Hi everybody, I'm modelling a differential driven robot and have two problems. My first problem: The robot turns a bit right or left when I want to drive forward. Made this short Video for explanation. I tried to fix it by setting the wheels stiffness, damping, friction, maxVel and minDepth to different values but didn't get it working correctly. This are my xxx.urdf.xacro files: body.urdf.xacro: <robot xmlns:xacro="http://www.ros.org/wiki/xacro"> <!-- The body macro that is also used to generate the tail --> <xacro:macro name="body" params="name parent length width height mass off_x off_y off_z role pitch yaw type full_joint material Gmaterial mu1 mu2 kp kd"> <!-- if --> <xacro:if value="${full_joint}"> <joint name="${parent}_to_${name}" type="${type}"> <parent link="${parent}"/> <child link="${name}_body_link"/> <origin rpy= "${role} ${pitch} ${yaw}" xyz="${off_x} ${off_y} ${off_z}"/> </joint> </xacro:if> <!-- else --> <xacro:unless value="${full_joint}"> <joint name="${parent}_to_${name}" type="${type}"> <parent link="${parent}"/> <child link="${name}_body_link"/> </joint> </xacro:unless> <link name="${name}_body_link"> <visual> <origin xyz="0 0 0"/> <geometry> <box size="${length} ${width} ${height}"/> </geometry> <material name="${material}"/> </visual> <collision> <origin xyz="0 0 0"/> <geometry> <box size="${length} ${width} ${height}"/> </geometry> </collision> <xacro:solid_cuboid_inertial width="${length}" depth="${width}" height="${height}" mass="${mass}"> <origin xyz="${off_x} ${off_y} ${off_z}"/> </xacro:solid_cuboid_inertial> </link> <gazebo reference="${name}_body_link"> <!-- <material>Gazebo/Black</material> --> <material>Gazebo/${Gmaterial}</material> <mu1>${mu1}</mu1> <mu2>${mu2}</mu2> <kp>${kp}</kp> <kd>${kd}</kd> </gazebo> <!-- <gazebo reference="{parent}_to_${name}" > </gazebo> --> </xacro:macro> <!-- The sphere macro that is used to simulate the finn --> <xacro:macro name="finn" params="name parent reflect radius mass off_x off_y off_z role pitch yaw type material Gmaterial mu1 mu2 kp kd maxVel minDepth fdir1"> <joint name="${parent}_to_${name}" type="${type}"> <parent link="${parent}"/> <child link="${name}_sphere_link"/> <origin rpy= "${role} ${pitch} ${yaw}" xyz="${off_x} ${off_y} ${reflect * off_z}"/> <dynamics damping="0.0" friction="0.0"/> </joint> <link name="${name}_sphere_link"> <visual> <origin xyz="0 0 0"/> <geometry> <sphere radius="${radius}"/> </geometry> <material name="${material}"/> </visual> <collision> <origin xyz="0 0 0"/> <geometry> <sphere radius="${radius}"/> </geometry> </collision> <xacro:sphere_inertial radius="${radius}" mass="${mass}"> <origin xyz="${off_x} ${off_y} ${reflect * off_z}"/> </xacro:sphere_inertial> </link> <gazebo reference="${name}_sphere_link"> <!-- <material>Gazebo/Black</material> --> <material>Gazebo/${Gmaterial}</material> <mu1>${mu1}</mu1> <mu2>${mu2}</mu2> <kp>${kp}</kp> <kd>${kd}</kd> <maxVel>${maxVel}</maxVel> <minDepth>${minDepth}</minDepth> <fdir1>${fdir1}</fdir1> </gazebo> <gazebo reference="{parent}_to_${name}" > <kp>${kp}</kp> <kd>${kd}</kd> </gazebo> </xacro:macro> <!-- Definitions of all single parts --> <xacro:body name="main" parent="base_link" length="0.14" width="0.22" height="0.09" mass="1.709" off_x="0" off_y="0" off_z="0" role="0" pitch="0" yaw="0" type="fixed" full_joint="false" material="body_mat" Gmaterial="Black" mu1="0.5" mu2="50.0" kp="100000000.0" kd="1.0" /> <!-- off_x = half body + half tail--> <xacro:body name="tail" parent="main_body_link" length="0.22" width="0.10" height="0.02" mass="0.242" off_x="${-0.11-0.07}" off_y ... (more)