Developing and simulating robot stability
Just recently I learned a new software tool that allows me to program and simulate a robot, using Python
, ROS2
and Gazebo
. This setup can be used not only to code the software for a real world robot, but also to simulate the behavior of the robot, its physics and environment. For instance, you can simulate how a robot moves or certain actuators behave. You can also spawn obstacles and test the camera system and object recognition capabilities of a robot.
In the video below I tested how the robot behaves under different speed configurations, testing and simulating the stability of the robot. In this case, the analysis shows that a maximum acceleration potentially leads to a collapse of the robot.