Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
URDF Files for CARL
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: David Kent <dekent AT gatech DOT edu>
- Author: Russell Toris <russell.toris AT gmail DOT com>, David Kent <dekent AT gatech DOT edu>, Steven Kordell <spkordell AT wpi DOT edu>
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/GT-RAIL/carl_bot/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/GT-RAIL/carl_bot.git (branch: master)
Contents
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