URDF parsing and writing

default_urdf_joint_types()

Default mapping from URDF joint type name to JointType subtype used by parse_urdf.

parse_urdf(filename; scalar_type, floating, joint_types, root_joint_type, remove_fixed_tree_joints, gravity, revolute_joint_type, floating_joint_type)

Create a Mechanism by parsing a URDF file.

Keyword arguments:

• scalar_type: the scalar type used to store the Mechanism's kinematic and inertial properties. Default: Float64.
• floating: whether to use a floating joint as the root joint. Default: false.
• joint_types: dictionary mapping URDF joint type names to JointType subtypes. Default: default_urdf_joint_types().
• root_joint_type: the JointType instance used to connect the parsed Mechanism to the world. Default: an instance of the the joint type corresponding to the floating URDF joint type tag if floating, otherwise in an instance of the joint type for the fixed URDF joint type tag.
• remove_fixed_tree_joints: whether to remove any fixed joints present in the kinematic tree using remove_fixed_tree_joints!. Default: true.
• gravity: gravitational acceleration as a 3-vector expressed in the Mechanism's root frame Default: [0.0, 0.0, -9.81].

Serialize a Mechanism to the URDF file format.

Limitations:

• for <link> tags, only the <inertial> tag is written; there is no support for <visual> and <collision> tags.
• for <joint> tags, only the <origin>, <parent>, <child>, and <limit> tags are written. There is no support for the <calibration> and <safety_controller> tags.

These limitations are simply due to the fact that Mechanisms do not store the required information to write these tags.

Keyword arguments:

• robot_name: used to set the name attribute of the root <robot> tag in the URDF. Default: nothing (name attribute will not be set).
• include_root: whether to include root_body(mechanism) in the URDF. If false, joints with root_body(mechanism) as their predecessor will also be omitted. Default: true.