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Not sure what are the differences, but CoppeliaSim ships with a Kilobot model.

Nope. PyCPP is a custom preprocessor, and no IDE has support for its syntax. However it is integrated in the CMake build, and it will generate the .cpp files which can be compiled by your compiler.
PyCPP tempates should not (directly) be part of the project. Which file is that?

Note that there is a Hokuyo laser scanner (Hokuyo_URG_04LX_UG01_ROS) which is made specifically for ROS. Athough it is for the old ROS pugin, it might be easier to adjust.

This is the portion of code information from CoppeliaSim -- measuredData now contains all the points that are closer than the sensor range -- For each point there is the x, y and z coordinate (i.e. 3 number for each point) Do you realize sensor_msgs/LaserScan works with points in polar coordinates,...

Refer to the documentation of the sensor_msgs/LaserScan message.

CoppeliaSim uses SI units (i.e.: meters, radians, and seconds).

By the way your code doesn't show how you create the data arrays.

If you stick with the standard layout it should build without any extra settings: just put simExtPluginSkeletonNG and libPlugin in the CoppeliaSim's programming subdirectory.

Otherwise you need to specify the LIBPLUGIN_DIR CMake variable and/or the COPPELIASIM_ROOT_DIR environment variable.

If you are having some build issue you should post the relevant output, and provide additional details about your environment, OS, etc, in order to get some help. libPlugin is a framework used by many plugins, consisting (currently) of three parts: simPlusPlus : some C++ stuff to ease the writing of...

when I type in: > rosrun image_view image_view image:=/visionSensorData a small window opens labeled /visionSensorData opens but nothing is shown. If I click on the window, it shows (Not responding). image_view is not part of CoppeliaSim's ROS interface. That might be an issue with image_view and W...

Joint can do rotation.

Change the second argument (localShift) of getShiftedMatrix() to something else (i.e. in lines 429, 447, 507, 527).