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Sensor parsing
This is a rebase of https://github.com/ros/robot_model/pull/125 to this new, relocated repo.
The PR enables generic parsing of sensors from URDF. The idea is to extend sensor support beyond Camera
and Ray
, but to allow any custom sensor description with appropriate parsers provided via plugins. We use that mechanism for example to describe tactile sensors for our tactile toolbox. For a detailed motivation, please have a look at ros/urdfdom#84.
This PR is only the very last in a whole series of PRs also involving ros/urdfdom_headers#22 and ros/urdfdom#84. Hence, it cannot compile without those.
Example usage can be seen in the unittest of tactile_toolbox.