A Seg Bot in Gazebo
This week, I worked on creating a Seg Bot model in Gazebo, the robot simulation engine that we are planning on using for our project. The Seg Bot model was created in the SDF format, an XML file format used by Gazebo to specify physical structures such as robots. The SDF format allows users to specify parts and their physical attributes, in theory allowing the user to create any robot possible in the simulation environment. So far, I was able to get the seg bot to move around in the environment without any intelligent control. Future work will involve getting the model to be controlled by a controller, as well as parameterizing the SDF file creation so that the designs can be easily tweaked through code.