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Webots ROS 2 packages
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Explanation about the parameter: 'robot_description' #895

Open wilhem opened 7 months ago

wilhem commented 7 months ago

Documentation page(s) concerned Link to the concerned page.

What is the problem with the current documentation? In many launch files, the robot_description parameter has been replace by the following string: Link

Describe how you would fix it What's the purpose of it? Why it cannot be passed the whole urdf/xacro content to that parameter?

elad-eyal commented 7 months ago

@wilhem whatever code you pasted there, it is not visible in GitHub web interface

wilhem commented 7 months ago

Yes, I see.

The code I posted does not get formatted in this interface. So I post a link to that line here: link

skpawar1305 commented 7 months ago

Documentation page(s) concerned Link to the concerned page.

What is the problem with the current documentation? In many launch files, the robot_description parameter has been replace by the following string: Link

Describe how you would fix it What's the purpose of it? Why it cannot be passed the whole urdf/xacro content to that parameter?

it's just dummy, if set_robot_state_publisher param of the WebotsController is set to true, the mentioned data gets overriden with a service call