How to close a four bar link?
Hello friends, I am working in a robot simulation with ROS+Gazebo and I have a question concerning URDF and SDF.
In order to simulate the operation of all joints of the robot, I need a package called ROS control, which is not compatible with SDF. However, my robot model requires a four-bar mechanism, which is not supported by URDF. I am kind of blocked.
I want to try two solutions in order to keep using ROS control and closing the four-bar mechanism:
-Start from URDF, convert it to SDF for later adding manually the fourth joint for the four-bar mechanism. I would be risking to lose all ros control tags defined in the URDF in the process.
Or a more general one,
-Load the model of the robot in gazebo using URDF. I understand during the spawning process the URDF is automatically converted to SDF. Then I would like to add programatically the fourth joint of the four-bar mechanism using a gazebo plug in.
So, my question is, how can I modify a model programatically? Name, parent, child, pose etc.
Thank you in advance
