Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

Creating a Chefbot description ROS package

The chefbot_description package contains the URDF model of our robot. Before creating this package by yourself, you can go through the downloaded packages of Chefbot from chapter3_codes. It will help you to speed up the process.

Let's check how to create the chefbot_description package. The following procedure will guide you in creating this package:

1. First, we need to switch to the chefbot folder in the src folder:

    $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src/  

2. The following command will create the robot description package along with dependencies, such as urdf and xacro. This will create the chefbot_description package in the catkin_ws/src folder:

    $ catkin_create_pkgchefbot_descriptioncatkinxacro  

3. Copy all the folders ...