huitzilo/gaden

GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments

GADEN

A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments

This ROS pkg presents a simulation framework to enable the validation of robotics systems and gas sensing algorithms under realistic environments. The framework is rooted in the principles of computational fluid dynamics and filament dispersion theory, modeling wind flow and gas dispersion in 3D real-world scenarios (i.e. accounting for walls, furniture, etc.). Moreover, it integrates the simulation of different environmental sensors, such as metal oxide gas sensors, photo ionization detectors, or anemometers. For further information, please see the prject webpage at http://mapir.isa.uma.es/work/gaden

DEMO

To enable a fast testing we include a "gaden_demo" pkg containing the necessary files to run a 3D demo. Concretelly, we have set two different demo.launch to test both, the simulator and the player pkgs. Notice that the player pkg requires to first execute the filament demo in order to have some data to plot, so we recomend to test both demos in the given oder:

1. gaden_simulator_demo.launch: In this demo we simulate withing a 3D environment a single gas source at a given location. We can visualize (using Rviz) the filaments dispersing in the environment, and save the results for its later processing with the gaden_player pkg. All parameters have been commented in order to be self explained.

2. gaden_player_demo.launch: After the simulation of the gas dispersal is done, we can run the gaden_player pkg in order to visualize the gas dispersion (we use a point cloud proportional to the gas concentration at each cell of the 3D environment). We also provide examples for some gas sensors and an anemometer, which will provide the readings (visulized for example with rqt_plot tool).

olfaction_msgs

Although GADEN is a self contained pkg, the also included "simulated_sensor_pkgs" (anemometer and gas sensors) depends on an external pkg defining some "olfaction" related msgs. This pkg is available in a different repository olfaction_msgs