add a new robot to ROS

asked 2017-09-19 09:13:05 -0500

nachatad
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how can i add a new rebot to Ros,i want to control my robot from ros, how i can do to integrate my robot in ros.

answered 2017-09-19 09:26:14 -0500

Airuno2L

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Essentially you'll want to make an URDF file for your robot (URDF stands for Unified Robot Description Format). You can learn how to do that using these URDF tutorials.

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Thank you for your answer

it's for visual robots, I think this is not my case, I need to integrate a real robot like Adept Cobra this is just an example. it already has a program to use it but I would like to integrate it with ros. thank you

nachatad ( 2017-09-19 09:35:11 -0500 )edit

@nachatad URDF files are for more than just visualization. You can use them to publish the tf of your robot (which is useful for many things) via robot_state_publisher. You'll probably want to take a look at the link that @Airuno2L posted