How can urdf joints subscribe from a topic?

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Use same name for your published topic and the URDF for example if you are publishing on /right_wheel make sure you have right_wheel in your URDF as well. in addtion you also have to check for frame_id, make sure it does matches with your URDF

@alexspi13: could you please clarify what you want to achieve? Do you want to have the model in RViz mimic the motions of your real robot?

@gvdhoorn: Yes

For RViz to visualise the state of your robot, you'll have to add a Robot Model display and have something publish TF transformations which tell RViz where it should draw your model.

If it's really a "car", then I guess there aren't that many transforms (mostly the place of your vehicle relative to some origin).

I don't have a step-by-step guide for you I'm afraid. Do you already have a URDF model of your robot?

@gvdhoorn: Yes I have design a URDF robo model. I tried from rostopic pub /joint_states to my wheel joint but didn't publish the data. Now I'm trying to publish data from my GUI. I create a publisher to joint_states topic with these data:

left_wheel_front.name[0] = "joint_left_wheel_f";
left_wheel_front.position[0] = 3;
left_wheel_front.effort[0] = 10;
left_wheel_front.velocity[0] = 10;

Is this procedure correct?