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What is the best way to simulate a simple Lego NXT light sensor in Gazebo? Is there already some existing photodetector Gazebo plugin? If not, what rough steps would you propose?
I don't know if this is overkill, or if there is something simpler, but I'd modify the camera sensor code, and either adjust it to a single pixel, or do averaging over many, and publish intensity instead of an image.
Using a modified camera is definitely a good idea. You should look at the specification of your light sensor, and determine how it behaves in the real world (sensitivity, range, field-of-view, etc).
I would then right a simple shader to attach to the camera (look at the StereoCamera for an example). The shader should fill a texture with light intensity. Right now the StereoCamera has a shader that fills a texture with depth data. You can use this as a starting point, and google should tell you how to compute light intensity in GLSL.
If the above seems overkill, or too much work. Then you can write a sensor that just iterates over all the lights in the world, and computes distance to the sensor. This will have some drawbacks: occlusions and reflections are problematic.
When Gazebo renders the scene theoretically it should calculate the color (and thus the brightness) of each point in the scene. Is there a way to access the parameters of the Gazebo main camera to retrieve the light intensity?
Asked: 2011-06-06 05:00:20 -0600
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Last updated: Jan 18 '13
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