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is URDF usefull in real robot ?

asked 2021-12-19 14:36:34 -0600

offgrid8
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updated 2023-01-20 04:25:09 -0600

aarsh_t

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I am building a robot and want to ask if urdf file is important when comes to navigation and mapping in real world.

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i think, this is usefull. Because, for example, footprint involved at common costmap parameter. This interested in robot's shape. This is relating for inflaction and costmap. But, if you use gazebo and rviz.

muratkoc503 ( 2021-12-26 11:09:38 -0600 )edit

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answered 2023-01-18 12:03:30 -0600

Mingjie
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In some cases, it would be required: Lidar slam packages like cartographer; Kalman filter packages like robot_localization.

If your robot will not use any existing packages that requires URDF file, you may skip it.

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