Documentation for Sensors in Gazebo

Hey guys, I just migrated from ROS1 to ROS2 and I am running ROS2 Humble Hawksbill with Gazebo Harmonic (ik its not the default installation but yeah I pulled Harmonic separately). I am working on a very basic project to bring a robot present in my academia to gazebo and I noticed that there is close to no documentation about the list of sensors and how to use them in our xacro files. There is some basic introduction here. But if I want a list of sensors and how to use them, I don’t find it anywhere. Does this call for creating a well-defined documentation or am I really missing any website?

Well, I guess the correct place would be Gazebo Sensors: Tutorials . However, these library reference docs are 1) quite buried in the navigation menu, and 2) in case of gz-sensors, almost empty.

On the other hand, some workings of the sensors from Classic remained quite similar, so porting the old tutorials shouldn’t be that difficult.

Maybe the Sensors section in the “unofficial” Gazebo Documentation Index could help you.

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OMG. I’m bookmarking it instantly! How come this isn’t a part of the official docs? :smiley:

The Gazebo Doc Index tries to collect all kind of information from all kind of sources in all kind of formats which makes it a bit wild for the official webpage to consider it as part of it. Great that you find it useful, feel free to add anything, it is just a PR against the repo :slight_smile:

I understand. But is there at least a link in the official docs to the repo?