ANYmal B Robot Description (URDF)

Overview

This package contains a simplified robot description (URDF) of the ANYmal B anymalal robot developed by ANYbotics.

The extended ANYmal B robot description, simulation, and control software is available exclusively to members of the ANYmal Research community. For more information and membership applications, contact info@anybotics.com.

Author & Maintainer: Linus Isler, ANYbotics

License

This software is released under a BSD 3-Clause license.

Publications

If you use this work in an academic context, please cite the following publications:

M. Hutter, C. Gehring, A. Lauber, F. Gunther, C. D. Bellicoso, V. Tsounis, P. Fankhauser, R. Diethelm, S. Bachmann, M. Bloesch, H. Kolvenbach, M. Bjelonic, L. Isler and K. Meyer "ANYmal - toward legged robots for harsh environments“, in Advanced Robotics, 31.17, 2017. (DOI)

@article{anymal2017,
    title={ANYmal-toward legged robots for harsh environments},
    author={Hutter, Marco and Gehring, Christian and Lauber, Andreas and Gunther, Fabian and Bellicoso, Carmine Dario and Tsounis, Vassilios and Fankhauser, P{\'e}ter and Diethelm, Remo and Bachmann, Samuel and Bl{\"o}sch, Michael and Kolvenbach, Hendrik and Bjelonic, Marko and Isler, Linus and Meyer, Konrad},
    journal={Advanced Robotics},
    volume={31},
    number={17},
    pages={918--931},
    year={2017},
    publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
}

ANYbotics, "ANYmal – Autonomous Legged Robot“, https://www.anybotics.com/anymal (accessed: 01.01.2019)

@misc{anymal,
    author = {ANYbotics},
    title = {{ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot}},
    howpublished = {\url{https://www.anybotics.com/anymal}},
    note = {Accessed: 2019-01-01}
}

Usage

Load the ANYmal description to the ROS parameter server:

roslaunch anymal_b_simple_description load.launch

To visualize and debug the robot description, start the standalone visualization (note that you have to provide the following additional dependencies: joint_state_publisher, robot_state_publisher, rviz):

roslaunch anymal_b_simple_description standalone.launch

Launch files

• load.launch: Loads the URDF to the parameter server. Meant to be included in higher level launch files.

• standalone.launch: A standalone launch file that starts RViz and a joint state publisher to debug the description.