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Changing link name causes parse error

asked 2016-09-17 20:47:07 -0500

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I'm trying to follow the beginner's tutorial shown here:

http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Bu...

For some reason, if I change the name of a link—e.g., from "right_leg" to "leg"—I get a urdf parse error. The error goes away as soon as I revert the link names to their original values. No idea why this is happening—or why it should ever. It seems that link names should be anything we deem suitable?

I'm running ros with rviz hydro on a VirtualBox virtual machine.

Thanks!

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What are you trying to run from the tutorial when this error occurs? Also, what is the error message?

Sounds like something else running is depending on this name, not a URDF error, because link names are allowed to change.

JoshMarino ( 2016-09-17 22:55:13 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-09-18 02:47:12 -0500

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Without seeing the actual error this is a bit of a guess, but:

You can name links any way you want (as long as you take care to follow the ROS naming conventions), but as @JoshMarino writes, you'll have to keep track of where those links are used and update those references as well.

Links in a urdf can be parents and children in joints fi, and the urdf parser will not be able to construct a tree for you if either of those doesn't resolve to a known link.

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