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h1. Wiki
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h2. Dynamixel Gazebo plugin
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It is a Gazebo plugin that emulates a series of Dynamixel motors connected over the same bus (daisy-chain connection), as depicted in the following figure.
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!http://www.generationrobots.com/img/cms/dynamixel-daisy-chain.GIF(Dynamixel motors connected in a daisy chain)!
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> Source: http://www.generationrobots.com.
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It is based on the library "libdynamixel":https://redmine.laas.fr/projects/libdynamixel.
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This library is inspired from "libmrsim":https://git.openrobots.org/projects/libmrsim?jump=welcome, and it provides the main functionalities and data structures to emulate the Dynamixel motors.
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h3. Installation
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To install, you need the following software packages, which are available as subprojects.
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* "libdynamixel":https://redmine.laas.fr/projects/libdynamixel.
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* "dxsim-gazebo":https://redmine.laas.fr/projects/dxsim-gazebo.
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*Please follow the instructions provided in each subproject's wiki*.