camera.xacro in the urdf Folder
camera_linkThe following is the code in the camera.xacro file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<robot xmlns:xacro="<http://www.ros.org/wiki/xacro>">
<xacro:property name="camera_length" value="0.01" />
<xacro:property name="camera_width" value="0.1" />
<xacro:property name="camera_height" value="0.05" />
<link name="camera_link">
<visual>
<geometry>
<box size="${camera_length} ${camera_width} ${camera_height}" />
</geometry>
<material name="grey" />
</visual>
<collision>
<geometry>
<box size="${camera_length} ${camera_width} ${camera_height}" />
</geometry>
</collision>
<xacro:box_inertia m="0.1" l="${camera_length}" w="${camera_width}" h="${camera_height}"
xyz="0 0 0" rpy="0 0 0" />
</link>
<joint name="base_camera_joint" type="fixed">
<parent link="base_link" />
<child link="camera_link" />
<origin xyz="${(base_length + camera_length) / 2.0} 0 ${base_height / 2.0}" rpy="0 0 0" />
</joint>
</robot>
camera.xacro File in the my_robot.urdf.xacro FileAdd the following line of code:
<xacro:include filename="camera.xacro" />
camera.xacro File and view Results on RvizUse following commands:
cd ros2_ws/
colcon build
source install/setup.bash
ros2 launch my_robot_description display.launch.xml