Interpretation of Force/Torque Sensor using gazebo_ros_ft_sensor plugin
I've successfully added a force torque/sensor to my model by adding following codes in my urdf file:
<gazebo reference="shoulder_pan_joint">
<provideFeedback>true</provideFeedback>
</gazebo>
<gazebo>
<plugin name="ft_sensor" filename="libgazebo_ros_ft_sensor.so">
<updateRate>10.0</updateRate>
<topicName>ft_sensor_topic</topicName>
<jointName>shoulder_pan_joint</jointName>
</plugin>
</gazebo>
Although the model is static and nothing is moving in gazebo gui, the outputs of force/torque sensor published by "ft_sensor_topic" is fluctuating. For example the force value that I expect to be -100 is fluctuating between -55 N and -143N. Other 5 components of torque and force values are also fluctuating in a similar range.
I also tried to reduce Gaussian Noise of the sensor by adding <gaussianNoise>0.0</gaussianNoise>
to the plugin tag. but this didn't solve the problem.
I'm using gazebo 2.2.3 + Ros indigo running in ubuntu 14.04.