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Subject: Re: [ros-users] how to manually set the speed of the left and right motors of diff drive base
Nevermind. It seems like it would be easier to modify the newer version, the
DiffDrivePlugin class in the erratic_gazebo_plugins folder instead.

thanks,
-- ben



On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Benjamin Cohen <> wrote:

> Thanks John.
>
> I just went through the code and I can't seem to find where the
> ActArrayData is stored, containing the speed of the actuators. How does the
> PositionIface<http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Gazebo-manual-svn-html/classgazebo_1_1PositionIface.html>set the motor commands? It seems like it only contains the commanded pose of
> the entire robot.
>
> -- ben
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:47 PM, John Hsu <>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>> are you talking about this plugin<https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/simulator_gazebo/trunk/gazebo_plugins/src/gazebo_ros_diffdrive.cpp>?
>> Starting with that plugin as reference, you should be able to modify it to
>> do what you described?
>> John
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Benjamin Cohen <>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if there is a differential drive gazebo plugin for small
>>> platforms (specifically for the Erratic) that allows me to manually set the
>>> velocity of the left motor and right motor instead of using a
>>> geometry_msgs/Twist to control the center of the base.
>>>
>>> for example: instead of publishing a Twist message on the /cmd_vel topic
>>> to control the base of the robot, I would instead publish a message on
>>> /cmd_motors with 2 floats, left_rpm & right_rpm to drive it around.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -- ben
>>>
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