Robot Operating System Cookbook

Universal Robots

We can install the Universal Robots packages by using the Debian package manager. Alternatively, we can directly download these packages from the repository, as follows:

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

After compilation or installation, we can launch the simulation in Gazebo for the UR-10 robot by using the following command:

$ roslaunch ur_gazebo ur10.launch

We will see something similar to the following screenshot:

Universal Robot simulation in Gazebo

The Universal Robot packages consist of the following packages:

• ur_description: This package ...