[ros-users] How to get contacts?

[Erik Berglund]

Hi Nate,
thank you for your reply.

Just to make sure I'm not missing anything:
There is no command line tool to do what I want, I must edit the
configuration files of the Shadow robot manually, correct?

Regards,
Erik Berglund

On 27 January 2011 00:52, Nate Koenig <natekoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> There is a ros gazebo_plugin called gazebo_ros_bumper (it's in the
> gazebo_plugins package).
>
> If you want an example of how to use it, look at the pr2.model file in
> the pr2_description/robots package.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> -nate
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Erik Berglund <erik.berglund at oru.se> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> first of all, I apologise if this is a trivial question, I'm a complete
>> beginner with regards to ROS.
>> I've searched the mailing list archives and the documentation without
>> finding the answer.
>>
>> Here's my question:
>> How do I get the contacts between objects from Gazebo using ROS?
>>
>> I've got a vanilla ROS install on Ubuntu 10.10, and on top of that I'm
>> running the Shadow Robot ROS interface:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/sr-ros-interface/+faq/1206
>>
>> I know there's a physics simulation running, because the hand collides with
>> objects and I can switch on rendering of contacts.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to get the contact points between objects?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erik Berglund
>>
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