Robot Operating System Cookbook

ABB Robots

We can install the ABB robots packages by using the Debian package manager, or we can directly download these packages from the repository as follows:

$sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-abb
$git clone https://github.com/ros-industrial/abb

We can launch the ABB IRB 6640 in rviz for motion planning which is shown in screenshot below, using the following command:

$ roslaunch abb_irb6640_moveit_config demo.launch

Motion planning of ABB IRB 6640

Similarly, we can also launch the ABB IRB 2400 in rviz   for motion planning, which is shown in the screenshot below, using the following command:

$ roslaunch abb_irb2400_moveit_config demo.launch ...