Hi David,

I will look at this as soon as I can, but I need a few more details. Ideally, the urdf of the robot, so I can test myself.
Are you using gazebo with ROS, or just by itself? Which version are you using?
Can you send the output of
gz topic -l
while gazebo is running with your robot loaded?

Also, are you sure the robot is colliding with sth (touching the obstacle)?You can try to make an obvious collision, e.g create a sphere and move it right next to the robot so it touches.

I presume you added collision shapes to the urdf? You can show them with the view menu as well. They should be displayed orange. Only contacts with collision shapes will be reported.

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Hi @JenniferBuehler, thanks for answering
I upload my workspace so you can test.
tfm5_ws.tar.gz
I'm using gazebo and moveit with ros kinetik.
In the src folder there is a image with the ouput of the terminal, and also you can see the contacts in gazebo.
In the urdf I have added collision shapes.
To run it I use: "roslaunch ur_gazebo ur3.launch" and in an other terminal "roslaunch ur3 demo_planning_execution.launch"

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Hi,
thanks for sharing the files. I didn't get around to fix the other issue which I have on my current setup yet, so haven't been able to test it, but I checked the code to refresh my memory, and the topic the contacts are published on is actually ~/physics/contacts. Can you check that anything is output on that topic?

The other topic ~/<robot-name>/contacts is a filtered topic. If this is not available, it means something has gone wrong with loading the grasp plugin. I guess you set up the gazebo grasp plugin as described here.

Could you please post the entire output after you launch roslaunch ur_gazebo ur3.launch?

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One way to double check the plugins are loaded correctly is to set verbose output for gazebo. In the launch file which brings up gazebo, you can set the verbose flag to true, e.g.

   <include file="$(find gazebo_ros)/launch/empty_world.launch">                                                    
     <arg name="verbose" value="true" />
     ..

If the plugin library file is not found for some reason, unfortuately the gazebo is only printed if you set the verbose mode.

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Hi, this is the output when I launch gazebo:

david@david:~/tfm5_2_ws$ roslaunch ur_gazebo ur3.launch
... logging to /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/roslaunch-david-29123.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

inconsistent namespace redefinitions for xmlns:xacro:
old: http://wiki.ros.org/xacro
new: http://ros.org/wiki/xacro (/home/david/tfm5_2_ws/src/ur3/urdf/objects/table.xacro)
started roslaunch server http://david:41555/

SUMMARY

PARAMETERS

• /arm_controller/action_monitor_rate: 10
• /arm_controller/constraints/elbow_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/elbow_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/goal_time: 0.6
• /arm_controller/constraints/shoulder_lift_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/shoulder_lift_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/shoulder_pan_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/shoulder_pan_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/stopped_velocity_tolerance: 0.05
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_1_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_1_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_2_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_2_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_3_joint/goal: 0.1
• /arm_controller/constraints/wrist_3_joint/trajectory: 0.1
• /arm_controller/joints: ['shoulder_pan_jo...
• /arm_controller/state_publish_rate: 25
• /arm_controller/stop_trajectory_duration: 0.5
• /arm_controller/type: position_controll...
• /hand_controller/action_monitor_rate: 10
• /hand_controller/constraints/finger_joint1/goal: 0.1
• /hand_controller/constraints/finger_joint1/trajectory: 0.1
• /hand_controller/constraints/finger_joint2/goal: 0.1
• /hand_controller/constraints/finger_joint2/trajectory: 0.1
• /hand_controller/constraints/goal_time: 0.6
• /hand_controller/constraints/stopped_velocity_tolerance: 0.05
• /hand_controller/joints: ['finger_joint1',...
• /hand_controller/state_publish_rate: 25
• /hand_controller/stop_trajectory_duration: 0.5
• /hand_controller/type: position_controll...
• /joint_group_position_controller/joints: ['finger_joint1',...
• /joint_group_position_controller/type: position_controll...
• /joint_state_controller/publish_rate: 50
• /joint_state_controller/type: joint_state_contr...
• /robot_description: <?xml version="1....
• /robot_state_publisher/publish_frequency: 50.0
• /robot_state_publisher/tf_prefix:
• /rosdistro: kinetic
• /rosversion: 1.12.16
• /use_sim_time: True

NODES
/
arm_controller_spawner (controller_manager/controller_manager)
fake_joint_calibration (rostopic/rostopic)
gazebo (gazebo_ros/gzserver)
gazebo_gui (gazebo_ros/gzclient)
hand_controller_spawner (controller_manager/controller_manager)
joint_state_controller_spawner (controller_manager/controller_manager)
robot_state_publisher (robot_state_publisher/robot_state_publisher)
ros_control_controller_manager (controller_manager/controller_manager)
spawn_gazebo_model (gazebo_ros/spawn_model)

auto-starting new master
process[master]: started with pid [29138]
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311

setting /run_id to 8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66
process[rosout-1]: started with pid [29151]
started core service [/rosout]
process[gazebo-2]: started with pid [29175]
process[gazebo_gui-3]: started with pid [29180]
process[spawn_gazebo_model-4]: started with pid [29185]
process[robot_state_publisher-5]: started with pid [29186]
process[fake_joint_calibration-6]: started with pid [29187]
process[joint_state_controller_spawner-7]: started with pid [29188]
process[arm_controller_spawner-8]: started with pid [29201]
process[hand_controller_spawner-9]: started with pid [29210]
process[ros_control_controller_manager-10]: started with pid [29214]
Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 7.0.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 7.0.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

[ INFO] [1603705773.402339111]: Finished loading Gazebo ROS API Plugin.
[ INFO] [1603705773.403195709]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, waiting...
[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg] Publicized address: 127.0.0.1
[ INFO] [1603705773.462572623]: Finished loading Gazebo ROS API Plugin.
[ INFO] [1603705773.463423771]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, waiting...
[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg] Publicized address: 127.0.0.1
SpawnModel script started
[INFO] [1603705773.863137, 0.000000]: Loading model XML from ros parameter
[INFO] [1603705773.867974, 0.000000]: Waiting for service /gazebo/spawn_urdf_model
[ INFO] [1603705774.221817491]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] is now available.
[ INFO] [1603705774.226339810]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] is now available.
[ INFO] [1603705774.355780208]: Physics dynamic reconfigure ready.
[ INFO] [1603705774.360402978, 0.071000000]: Physics dynamic reconfigure ready.
[INFO] [1603705774.474824, 0.179000]: Calling service /gazebo/spawn_urdf_model
[INFO] [1603705774.768382, 0.284000]: Spawn status: SpawnModel: Successfully spawned entity
[ INFO] [1603705774.928081282, 0.284000000]: Loading gazebo_ros_control plugin
[ERROR] [1603705774.928204395, 0.284000000]: GazeboRosControlPlugin missing while using DefaultRobotHWSim, defaults to true.
This setting assumes you have an old package with an old implementation of DefaultRobotHWSim, where the robotNamespace is disregarded and absolute paths are used instead.
If you do not want to fix this issue in an old package just set to true.

[ INFO] [1603705774.928292519, 0.284000000]: Starting gazebo_ros_control plugin in namespace: /
[ INFO] [1603705774.930062103, 0.284000000]: gazebo_ros_control plugin is waiting for model URDF in parameter [robot_description] on the ROS param server.
[spawn_gazebo_model-4] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/spawn_gazebo_model-4*.log
[ERROR] [1603705775.046247450, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/shoulder_pan_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.047780711, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/shoulder_lift_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.049699710, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/elbow_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.051311481, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/wrist_1_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.053205705, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/wrist_2_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.055218945, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/wrist_3_joint
[ERROR] [1603705775.057495898, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/finger_joint1
[ERROR] [1603705775.059771955, 0.284000000]: No p gain specified for pid. Namespace: /gazebo_ros_control/pid_gains/finger_joint2
[ INFO] [1603705775.068452074, 0.284000000]: Loaded gazebo_ros_control.
[ WARN] [1603705775.068687999, 0.285000000]: The default_robot_hw_sim plugin is using the Joint::SetPosition method without preserving the link velocity.
[ WARN] [1603705775.068734731, 0.285000000]: As a result, gravity will not be simulated correctly for your model.
[ WARN] [1603705775.068765441, 0.285000000]: Please set gazebo_pid parameters, switch to the VelocityJointInterface or EffortJointInterface, or upgrade to Gazebo 9.
[ WARN] [1603705775.068794692, 0.285000000]: For details, see ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs#612
Loaded joint_state_controller
Started ['joint_state_controller'] successfully
Loaded hand_controller
Loaded joint_group_position_controller
Loaded arm_controller
Started ['hand_controller'] successfully
Started ['arm_controller'] successfully
[hand_controller_spawner-9] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/hand_controller_spawner-9*.log
[arm_controller_spawner-8] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/arm_controller_spawner-8*.log
[joint_state_controller_spawner-7] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/joint_state_controller_spawner-7*.log
[ros_control_controller_manager-10] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/david/.ros/log/8b7b9094-1770-11eb-b06a-484520727c66/ros_control_controller_manager-10*.log

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Hi, sorry for the delays in my responses, so busy and in the evenings I tend to forget...
This output suggests the plugin isn't being loaded at all. It could be you're not loading the right urdf, or the plugin library file is not found. Can you switch on gazebo verbose mode (flag in launch file as I mentioned above) and post the output? That will show errors if the library file isn't found then.

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Hi Jen,
I have turn the verbose on, and see that, as you say gazebo was not loading the plugin correctly. The error is a little bit shameful, I forgot to put these packages in my folder. https://github.com/JenniferBuehler/gazebo-pkgs
So now it works well.
I also was making my own system to attach objects to the gripper, but my system fails a lot.
Thank you very much for your help

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Phew I'm very glad this could be resolved :)
Good luck with your project!
Feel free to reopen the issue or open a new one if you have further questions.

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