Would I able to load a Gazebo world as a training model into rlSimulinkEnv function ?

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Zayden - 2021-03-24T12:31:19+00:00
Question: Would I able to load a Gazebo world as a training model into rlSimulinkEnv function ?

Hi, I'm trying to use  Simulink to apply turtlebot3 to do deep reinforcement learning simulation, the tutorial I'm following is from Robotics Arena DRL for Walking Robots. I face a problem is that I want to load the Gazebo model such like turtlebot3_world.world instead of the walking robot model, but I didn't find any tutorial about it. Here is the code at the file createWalkingAgent2D.m % Environment mdl = 'walkingRobotRL2D'; load_system(mdl); blk = [mdl,'/RL Agent']; env = rlSimulinkEnv(mdl,blk,observationInfo,actionInfo); If there is anyone knows it, please give me some advicess. Thank you!!  

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Profile picture of John Michell John Michell answered . 2025-11-20

Loading a  Simulink model that simulates a robot is very different than loading a Gazebo world. There is currently no capability for loading a Gazebo model inside of Simulink and accessing data from it directly.

You can, however, run Gazebo externally and load the model into that. You can then communicate with Gazebo using Gazebo Co-Simulation, ROS, or ROS 2, and feed the data received from that into your reinforcement learning algorithm. Gazebo Co-Simulation will provide a higher level of control over the Gazebo simulation, and may have more consistent performance. It may be easier to get started with ROS or ROS 2, though, since TurtleBot3 is set up to use it already.


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