Problem in adding two Schunk arms plus a simple shape (e.g. cylinder) into...
Dear Friends, First of all, I apologize if my question may look trivial. I am new with ROS. Here is the problem: The aim is to have two Schunk arms mounted on a simple box. We have a robot.urdf.xacro...
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When I am trying launch my gazebo project with: "roslaunch spider1_gazebo spider1_gazebo.launch" I have the following problem: Traditional processing is deprecated. Switch to --inorder processing! To...
View ArticleDon't understand how to parse URDF file
Hello all, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with ROS Indigo. So I am following the URDF tutorial ([Create your own urdf file](http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Create%20your%20own%20urdf%20file)) but after I...
View ArticleURDF to Xacro from Solidworks Problems
Hello folks! First time here, mind me if I do anything wrong :) First, my setup is: ROS Indigo on Linux Mint 17.1 (Ubuntu 14.04 based). I am trying to import a robot I built on Solidworks and exported...
View ArticleLoading variables with xacro:include
In roslaunch, if I include a file, I can pass it arguments like this: Is there an equivalent for xacro:include? For example: I know I can do this using something like: However, this is not an ideal...
View Articlexacro load yaml file with rospack
I'm using xacro's new [ability to load a yaml file into a property](http://wiki.ros.org/xacro#YAML_support) in order to update a URDF with new calibration data. The file in the example is local. Is...
View ArticleOptional Parameters from .launch to .xarco
Hi All Can someone please tell how I would be able to send **optional** parameters from a .launch file to a .urdf.xarco file. I have a gazebo model where I want to optionally send the material. Eg. By...
View Articlejade xacro macro param line breaks 'string index out of range'
I have been running a xacro fine in indigo and hydro but now in jade I get a `string index out of range` error (I also had to add the `--inorder` flag) from having line breaks before or after macro...
View ArticleHow to publish transform from odom to base_link?
I am running a p3at in a gazebo with ros plugins. I need to subscribe to the odometry pose and update broadcast the tf between odom and base_link.How do I do it? Should I define a "odom" link in the...
View ArticleNested properties in xacro
I know you can nest xacro macros, but is it also possible to nest properties in xacro? I'm trying something like this `test.xacro` contains but the output of `rosrun xacro xacro.py test.xacro` gives...
View ArticleHow to connect Turtlebot URDF to PincherX arm URDF file?
Hello, Please help me in connecting turtlebot to pincherx arm for rviz simulation i tried connecting it but couldn't do it successfully and ts showing an error during cmake. Turtle bot and PincherX...
View ArticleHow to set custom location for urdf files created from xacro with cmake?
Hello all, I was following the tutorial here: http://wiki.ros.org/xacro#Building_from_CMakeLists.txt to automatically build urdf files from CMakeLists.txt, but I would additionally wish to create the...
View Articlexacro.py generates empty urdf file
I am using following command to convert *.urdf.xacro to *.urdf in ROS indigo,ubuntu 14.04: rosrun xacro xacro.py a.urdf.xacro > a.urdf also rosrun xacro xacro.py -o a.urdf a.urdf.xacro content of...
View ArticleConfused about Xacro and URDF
Hey together, I am a little bit confused about the use case of xacro and urdf. I my case I have an robot equipped with 3 laserscanner and modeled a urdf file for it following the [build your...
View ArticleXacro if statement evaluation order
Hey, I am using xacro v1.9.5 with ros indigo but it seems I have run into a bug. When I use the following code: the if statement will be evaluated as true. It looks like that only the first value is...
View ArticleXacro filling in parameters without specifying
Hey everybody, I came across the following strange feature. I have two seperate files. One that includes definitions of parts, another that put everything together. First file: Second file: When I run...
View ArticleGadzebo model problems
Hi all I want to run my real robot in ros so I already wrote a simple hardware controller. I also created xacro model. First I wanted to simulate robot in gadzebo and tried there follow joint...
View ArticleResource Not Found: xacro
Hi everyone, I'm new to ROS and currently using indigo on 14.04 LTS. I have a package called `myrobot_description`,with `launch` and `urdf` folder in it. i am trying to launch a `.launch` file to...
View ArticleXacro, ruby : SDF parametrization
Hi, I'm looking to control some parameters of my model through the ros launch file. I know that this used to be handle with xacro in urdf file and ruby allow some features in SDF but I not sure how to...
View ArticleCan somebody explain me the relation between .xacro file and .gazebo file and...
Hi, I am analyzing some code base about a robot model which has an urdf folder in the package. The urdf folder contains .xacro and .gazebo file. I am not able to understand how these two files are...
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