Px4 simulation with ROS2 Humble and Gazebo

PX4 Autopilot
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I would like to establish a development environment for px4 utilizing ROS2 Humble and Gazebo as the simulation tool. Despite following the instructions outlined in the official documentation, I encountered difficulties in successfully completing the installation. Therefore, I kindly request detailed guidance from anyone who can assist me in accomplishing this task. Your assistance and support will be greatly appreciated.

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Hi,

Have you tried with ROS 1 .

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yes i have tried ROS 1 and everything works fine

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Any reason to choose ROS 2 over ROS 1

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ROS 2 eliminates most of the complexity faced in ROS1 and provied good integration with px4

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OK…great …I also heard that it reduces latency …I don’t know how much of it is true.

Have you followed the below link

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yes I followed the same docs as mentioned but could not install everything successfully

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OK…Did you try the following alternate link

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No. I will try it now and give a feedback about it. Thank you so much for sharing

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This is working. Thank you so much I will figure out from here

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great…if you are into obstacle sensing ,please let me know how to go about it in simulation…

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I have created detailed step by step guide: follow this guide if anyone is new to PX4 with ROS2 Humble. I will be updating this guide when needed

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@nikhilsnayak3473 It would be better if you would be able to contribute to the official px4 documentation instead of creating a new repository of instructions

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can i edit this page and submit a pull request?

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@nikhilsnayak3473 Of course, the documentation is also part of an open source project

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I have Submitted the Pull Request. Kindly notify me of any necessary modifications upon verification.

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I got some errors while building the workspace in this …
the error is from the px4_msg package

CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/rosidl_adapter/cmake/rosidl_adapt_interfaces.cmake:59 (message):
execute_process(/usr/bin/python3 -m rosidl_adapter --package-name px4_msgs
–arguments-file
/home/junaid/ros2_px4_offboard_example_ws/src/build/px4_msgs/rosidl_adapter__arguments__px4_msgs.json
–output-dir
/home/junaid/ros2_px4_offboard_example_ws/src/build/px4_msgs/rosidl_adapter/px4_msgs
–output-file
/home/junaid/ros2_px4_offboard_example_ws/src/build/px4_msgs/rosidl_adapter/px4_msgs.idls)
returned error code 1:

AttributeError processing template ‘msg.idl.em’

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/ros/humble/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/rosidl_adapter/resource/__init__.py", line 51, in evaluate_template
  em.BUFFERED_OPT: True,

AttributeError: module ‘em’ has no attribute ‘BUFFERED_OPT’

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

as followed it is some of it.