The Universal Robot Description Format in ROS 2

Type of course:

Digital learning, Lesson

Language:

Duration:

20 minutes

Workload:

2 hours

Proficiency:

Intermediate

Target:

Professionals, Workers

This nugget introduces the Universal Robot Description Format (URDF), the file format used in the Robot Operating System (ROS) to describe robotic systems. With this nugget, you will learn to describe your robot with URDF. You will also learn to use xacro, an XML macro language, in order to simplify and parametrize the content of URDF files.<br>

Learning outcomes

The learners identify the two related formats for robot description in ROS: URDF and xacro
The learners generate a package containing a robot description
The learners list the existing tools to create a robot description with a graphical user interface