Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Running the simulation and plotting the results

To run this simulation scenario, we follow the standard approach of first launching a Gazebo environment—part of the cartpole_description package with the model of the robot—and, afterward, we will start the training process:

T1 $ roslaunch cartpole_description main.launch

The result in the Gazebo window should be similar to the following screenshot. Although this is a 3D environment, the model itself behaves like a 2D model, since the cart pole can only slide along the direction of the guide:

For the training process, we have the launch file in the other ROS package, that is, cartpole_v0_training ...