Only released in EOL distros:  

carl_bot: carl_bringup | carl_description | carl_dynamixel | carl_interactive_manipulation | carl_phidgets | carl_teleop | carl_tools

Package Summary

URDF Files for CARL

About

carl_description contains urdf and xacro files for CARL, as well as Collada models for all of the components. 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 CARL, organized into subdirectories as follows:

  • urdf/ contains xacro representations of urdf descriptions of the various robot components

  • meshes/ contains mesh files for visualization

  • robots/ contains a standalone model of the robot in both xacro and compiled urdf form

Startup

The carl_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, CARL can be visualized in tools such as rviz. It can be launched with the following command:

roslaunch carl_description view.launch

Wiki: carl_description (last edited 2014-12-12 16:11:49 by davidkent)