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Package Summary

Released Continuous integration Documented

3D Model and URDF of the Kinova JACO Arm

Maintainer status: maintained
Maintainer: David Kent <dekent AT gatech DOT edu>, Russell Toris <rctoris AT wpi DOT edu>
Author: Russell Toris <rctoris AT wpi DOT edu>, David Kent <dekent AT gatech DOT edu>, Benzun Pious Wisely Babu <bpwiselybabu AT wpi DOT edu>
License: BSD
Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/RIVeR-Lab/wpi_jaco/issues
Source: git https://github.com/RIVeR-Lab/wpi_jaco.git (branch: master)

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Contents

About
Organization
Installation
Startup

About

jaco_description contains urdf and xacro files for the JACO arm. It also includes a launch file for reading the robot model and setting up a joint_state_publisher and robot_state_publisher for visualization in tools such as rviz.

Organization

This package contains robot description files for the JACO arm, organized into subdirectories as follows:

urdf/ contains xacro representations of urdf descriptions of the arm and its parts, as well as a generated urdf file for the standalone arm.
robots/ contains urdf files for the arm as standalone robots.
meshes/ contains mesh files for visualization and collision properties

Installation

To install the wpi_jaco package, you can install from source with the following commands:

```
   1 cd /(your catkin workspace)/src
   2 git clone https://github.com/RIVeR-Lab/wpi_jaco.git
   3 cd ..
   4 catkin_make
   5 catkin_make install
```

Startup

The jaco_description package includes a launch file that can be used to load the robot model and setup joint state and robot state publishing used to populate a tf tree and visualize the robot. Once launched, the JACO model can be visualized in tools such as rviz. It can be launched with the following command:

roslaunch jaco_description display.launch

The launch file also includes a parameter (gui) to launch a GUI which can control each joint to test the model's behavior, which can be launched as follows:

roslaunch jaco_description display.launch gui:=true