Mastering ROS for robotics programming: design, build, and simulate complex robots using Robot Operating System and master its out-of-the-box functionalities

Chapter 2: Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS; ROS packages for robot modeling; Understanding robot modeling using URDF; Creating the ROS package for the robot description; Creating our first URDF model; Explaining the URDF file; Visualizing the robot 3D model in Rviz; Interacting with pan and ti...

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Main Author: Joseph, Lentin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham Packt Publishing 2015
Series:Community experience distilled
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Links:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781783551798/?ar
Summary:Chapter 2: Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS; ROS packages for robot modeling; Understanding robot modeling using URDF; Creating the ROS package for the robot description; Creating our first URDF model; Explaining the URDF file; Visualizing the robot 3D model in Rviz; Interacting with pan and tilt joints; Adding physical and collision properties to a URDF model; Understanding robot modeling using xacro; Using properties; Using the math expression; Using macros; Conversion of xacro to URDF; Creating the robot description for a seven DOF robot manipulator; Arm specification.
Item Description:Includes index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 5, 2016)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 455 Seiten) illustrations
ISBN:9781785282997
1785282999
1783551798
9781783551798