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Building xbot urdf

Description: How to build Xbot urdf

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: Take care of xbot xbot/tutorials/indigo/xbot bringup

Package Summary

This tutorial shows how to launch the xbot obstacle avoidance module and explains how it works.

  • Maintainer status: developing
  • Maintainer: Chai Changkun < chaichangkun@163.com >

  • Author: Chai Changkun

Overview

This tutorial describes the urdf for Xbot.

Unified Robot Description Format(urdf) is an XML format for representing a robot model.

To learn how to build up your own robot models using the URDF specification. Check out the urdf/Tutorials page.

xbot urdf is shown as below.

xbot_urdf

Specification

Xbot urdf is established like a tree. The root is base_link which represent the main robot base and the stems are the links attached to the base. The leaves, as is shown in the picture below, are camera, lidar and wheels.

xbot_urdf_tree

What Next?

Wiki: xbot/tutorials/indigo/Building xbot urdf (last edited 2017-04-12 01:52:37 by sychaichangkun)