robot_model: assimp | collada_urdf | colladadom | convex_decomposition | ivcon | kdl_parser | resource_retriever | robot_state_publisher | urdf
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Stack Summary
robot_model contains packages for modeling various aspects of robot information, specified in the Xml Robot Description Format (URDF). The core package of this stack is urdf, which parses URDF files, and constructs an object model (C++) of the robot.
- Author: John Hsu johnhsu@willowgarage.com, Wim Meeussen
- License: BSD,GPL,MIT
- Repository: ros-pkg (https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg)
Documentation
robot_model provides the following ROS packages:
urdf: An XML robot description format and parser.
kdl_parser: A parser to create a kinematic and dynamic model of a robot from a URDF robot description.
robot_state_publisher: A publisher for the transform library, used to publish the 3D pose of each link in a robot.
resource_retriever: A tool to read data from URL-format sources into memory.
convex_decomposition: A tool to auto-generate convex decomposed meshes for collision and visualization of robot links.
ivcon: A mesh conversion tool to generate .iv files from .stl files.
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