GzScenic: Automatic Scene Generation for Gazebo Simulator

Abstract: Testing robotic and cyberphysical systems in simulation require specifications of the simulated environments (i.e., scenes). The Scenic domain-specific language provides a high-level probabilistic programming language that allows users to specify scenarios for simulation. Scenic automatically generates concrete scenes that can be rendered by simulators. However, Scenic is mainly designed for autonomous vehicle simulation and does not support the most popular general-purpose simulator: Gazebo. In this work, we present GzScenic; a tool that automatically generates scenes for simulation in Gazebo. GzScenic automatically generates both the models required for running Scenic on the scenarios, and the models that Gazebo requires for running the simulation.