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Why not use Gazebo's API to do this? If your robot's end-effector is moving obviously you need a constant need for distance measurement?

You can write a World Plugin for Gazebo, then get the world position of end-effector, as well as world position of the object, then simply calculate the Eucledean between these two.

You can find an example where I did something similar here;

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