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URDF

  • URDF appears to have originated with ROS somehow
  • Spec: (https://wiki.ros.org/urdf/XML)
  • Matlab has a good explanation (https://www.mathworks.com/help/sm/ug/urdf-model-import.html)

  • A good article on creating a USD from a URDF
    • (https://medium.com/@jmake/a-practical-approach-to-the-nvidia-omniverse-robotics-simulation-toolkit-part-1-c7f068791954)
    • The repo:

yourdfpy

  • A urdf viewer (https://yourdfpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)mki
  • unfortunately it requires pyglet<2
    • pip install "pyglet<2"
  • Development guide: (https://urdfpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/index.html#development)

Coordinate System

  • This document (about SDF) goes into how URDF defines them (http://sdformat.org/tutorials?tut=pose_frame_semantics&ver=1.5) From the MatLab article: