Simulating a self-driving car with sensors in Gazebo

In this section, we are going to discuss an open source self-driving car project done in Gazebo. In this project, we will learn how to implement a robot car model in Gazebo and how to integrate all sensors into it. Also, we will move the robot around the environment using a keyboard, and finally, we will build a map of the environment using SLAM.

Installing prerequisites

Let's take a look at the prerequisites for setting up packages in ROS Melodic.

The commands given here will install the ROS Gazebo controller manager:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-controller-manager 
$ sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-ros-control ros-melodic-ros-controllers 
$ sudo apt-get install...