Gazebo: Failed to create robot simulation interface loader

[hennking98]

Hello,
I am currently following the gazebo tutorials in the Franka Control Interface documentation.
I installed franka-ros from the ROS repositories with the following command:

sudo apt install ros-noetic-libfranka ros-noetic-franka-ros

The franka-gazebo package was missing so I installed myself.
When I now try to run:

roslaunch franka_gazebo panda.launch

I get the following error:

[ INFO] [1641851266.573617743]: gazebo_ros_control plugin is waiting for model URDF in parameter [/panda/robot_description] on the ROS param server.
[FATAL] [1641851266.676289907]: Failed to create robot simulation interface loader: Could not find library corresponding to plugin franka_gazebo/FrankaHWSim. Make sure the plugin description XML file has the correct name of the library and that the library actually exists.

Thank you for your help!

[marcbone]

Seems like an error on our side.

As a quick fix I would suggest you to remove franka-ros completely with
sudo apt remove ros-noetic-franka-ros
and clone the github repo and build everything from source.

[mnksnz]

Hi,
I noticed the exact same error also with Melodic. But the source install seems to quickly fix this problem.

[gollth]

Probably related to #175. If so, this is already fixed on develop. Once we release the next version, this will be fixed on apt as well

[gollth]

Hi @hennking98, we recently released franka_ros 0.8.2 which contains the fix for your issue. So now also sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade should fix your issue. The new version is already on Noetic, for Melodic it might take a while to go to upstream.

If problem persists, feel free to reopen