Migrate to modern Gazebo

[azeey]

As you may know, Gazebo-classic (aka Gazebo11, see Terminology) is no longer being actively developed and will not be available on ROS Jazzy (REP 2000). I noticed that this project still uses Gazebo-classic. Are there any plans to migrate to modern Gazebo (previously known as Ignition)?

These might be helpful resources if you do plan to migrate:

• Migration guide for SDF files: https://gazebosim.org/api/sim/8/migrationsdf.html
• Migration guild for Gazebo plugins: https://gazebosim.org/api/sim/8/migrationplugins.html
• Documentation for ros_gz: https://gazebosim.org/docs/harmonic/ros2_integration.
• https://github.com/gazebosim/ros_gz_project_template and its documentation.

[stefanscherzinger]

@azeey

Thanks for sharing your insights concerning Gazebo classic. We might switch to modern Gazebo at some point, especially if that's the primary simulation environment for users of this package. We'll see.

Thanks for your links how to migrate.