Installing the ROS interface of universal robots

We can install the latest packages of the universal robot using the source installation.

Create a workspace for the industrial robot packages called ros_industrial_ws and clone the universal robot code to the src folder as follows:

    ros_industrial_ws/src$ git clone https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot.git

We can also install its Ubuntu binary packages using the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-universal-robot

The universal robot stack consists of the following packages:

  • ur_description: This package consists of the robot description and gazebo description of UR-5 and UR-10.
  • ur_driver: This package contains client nodes, which can communicate to the UR-5 and ...

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