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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph, Lentin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham Packt Publishing 2015
Series:Community experience distilled
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:xvi, 455 pages illustrations
ISBN:9781785282997
1785282999
1783551798