I appreciate it, Brian. Slight issue: after installing the patch, rosmaking stage and attempting to run the .world with a pioneer, it's triggering the same error as before. The error itself refers to a piece of code that should have been erased by the patch. I've pre-cleaned it, tried different approaches to rosmake, and gone through the code to make sure its compilable. Any idea as to what might be the problem?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Eliot Beckham <webeckham@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to use the GUI simulator "stage" to run a demo of a pioneer
> robot within ROS. Stage is setup within its code, stageros.cpp, not
> specifically to function with the default virtual robot class defined in
> stage (roomba.inc), but with a robot using an array of lasers - a pioneer
> robot (defined within pioneer.inc) uses only a sonar array. Stage works just
> fine when simulating a roomba, and still constructs the world when run
> before hitting a fatal error. Is there any sort of patch or modification to
> stageros.cpp that can be made in order to run stage using a robot with a
> sonar array?

hi Eliot,

As the docs say (http://www.ros.org/wiki/stage#World_syntax), the ROS
wrapper for Stage only exposes `laser` and `position` models.  There's
an (embarrassingly old) patch that adds support for sonar:
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4487.

I'll make sure that we enable sonar support for Fuerte, as part of the
upgrade to Stage 4.x.

       brian.
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