An important feature of robotic simulators is the possibility to simulate sensors as well as robots. We are now going to add a laser sensor to the Pioneer_3dx. V-REP offers different models of vision, inertial, and proximity sensors. These can be selected from the Model Browser panel in the components | sensors section.
To add a laser to the robot, select and drag and drop Hokuyo_URG_04LX_UG01_ROS into the scene. It's useful to put the sensor as a parent of the robot to be facilitated in its correct positioning on the robot frame. After importing the sensor, the Scene Hierarchy should appear, as show in the following figure:
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Figure 15: Scene Hierarchy panel with the Pioneer equipped with hokuyo laser
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