1. Description
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simulated mobile robot using the Universal Robot Description Format (URDF), the standard ROS format for robot modeling.
Robotics experts like to simulate robots before building them to test different algorithms. As you can imagine, making mistakes with a physical robot can be costly (e.g. hitting a mobile robot into a wall at high speed means losing money).
2. Prerequisites for this experiment
- ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy installed on Ubuntu Linux 20.04
- If you are using another ROS 2 distribution, you will need to replace "foxy" with the distribution name of "foxy" that I mentioned in this tutorial.
- I strongly recommend that you get the latest version of ROS 2 . If you are using a newer version of ROS 2, you can still follow all the steps in this tutorial