What is the industry best practices for the URDF / SDF mismatch?

• sdformat_urdf

  1 30 6.0 C++

  A urdf_parser_plugin using libsdformat to parse SDFormat XML into URDF structures

  

sdformat_urdf package to transform SDF to XML, with a lot of limitations

• robot_state_publisher

  1 82 4.8 C++

  Allows you to publish the state of a robot (i.e the position of its base and all joints) via the "tf" transform library

  

A lengthy discussion on the robot state publisher github issues

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• gazebo_ros_pkgs

  9 729 2.2 C++

  Wrappers, tools and additional API's for using ROS with Gazebo

  

Optionally, is it possible to use a different type of joint? I see in the gazebo ackermann prius car example, it uses several universal joints. Can I use another type of joint and still be able to simulate the robot to test out the controller?

Suggest a related project