Simulating a self-driving car with sensors in Gazebo

In this section, we are going to discuss an open-source self-driving car project done in Gazebo. In this project, we will learn how to implement a robot car model in Gazebo and how to integrate all sensors into it. Also, we will move the robot around the environment using a keyboard, and finally, we will build a map of the environment using SLAM.

Installing prerequisites

This project is fully compatible with ROS Indigo, but some packages are yet to be released in ROS Kinetic. Let's take a look at the prerequisites for setting up packages in ROS Indigo.

The commands given here will install the ROS Gazebo controller manager:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-controller-manager
$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-control ros-indigo-ros-controllers
$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-gazebo-ros-control

After installing this, we can install the Velodyne simulator packages in Indigo using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo...