Added Velodyne Simulator LiDAR to Turtlebot3 models

Hello, I was able to add this Velodyne Simulator package:

To the Turtlebot3 burger, waffle and waffle_pi models. I forked the Turtlebot3 GitHub repository and edited the urdf and sdf files on the humble-devel branch. As long as you install the velodyne_simulator with:

sudo apt install ros-humble-velodyne-simulator

In your ROS2 /opt/ros/humble/share directory, it should work correctly. Currently, there is no mesh that is available to be displayed in Gazebo, but the PointCloud2 points are still collected and are published to the topic:

/velodyne_points

Here is the repository, let me know if you have any questions:

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