andino_description

The andino_description package

README

andino_description

Description

This package holds the urdf description of the robot.

In the urdf folder you have the URDF files that contain the description of the robot, divided in different modules and merged into andino.urdf.xacro file.

Configuration

In case you want to change the physical properties of some of the components of the robot, you can do it modifying the default YAML files inside the config/andino folder.

You can even add your own configuration files in another directory in the config folder, and pass this directory to the main file using the yaml_config_dir xacro argument on the launch files.

Launch Files

For launching robot state publisher for filling up static tf information and serving the description of the robot. Typically used during robot bringup.

ros2 launch andino_description andino_description.launch.py

For launching the robot state publisher and providing some visualization with rviz to analyze the robot description.

ros2 launch andino_description view_andino.launch.py