{"id":5914,"date":"2014-05-13T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:53:57","slug":"solidworks-to-gazebo-robot-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/05\/solidworks-to-gazebo-robot-simulation.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks to Gazebo Robot Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-to-Gazebo-WPI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5915\" alt=\"SolidWorks to Gazebo WPI\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-to-Gazebo-WPI.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-to-Gazebo-WPI.jpg 466w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-to-Gazebo-WPI-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-to-Gazebo-WPI-120x108.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world of simulating robots in play just got easier with the help of students <strong>TJ Watson<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Strickland<\/strong> from WPI.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCNpT1ng9sA\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These students have worked to bring SolidWorks models into Gazebo in URDF file format. Using WPILIB Java, software libraries for controlling robots, they have developed the steps for you to do it too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/WPI-Model-SolidWorks-to-URDF.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPI Model SolidWorks to URDF\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/WPI-Model-SolidWorks-to-URDF.bmp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">TJ and Michael have put together a \u00a0document to help competitive teams get started with simple motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/WPI-SolidWorks-to-URDF.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5919\" alt=\"WPI SolidWorks to  URDF\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/WPI-SolidWorks-to-URDF.bmp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Document:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/WPI-Robotics-SolidWorks-to-Gazebo.pdf\">WPI Robotics SolidWorks to Gazebo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Thank you TJ, Michael, Brad Miller, and WPI Robotics for sharing with the SolidWorks Community. \u00a0Marie<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of simulating robots in play just got easier with the help of students TJ Watson and Michael Strickland from WPI. These students have worked to bring SolidWorks models into Gazebo in URDF file format. Using WPILIB Java, software<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/05\/solidworks-to-gazebo-robot-simulation.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5381,5219],"tags":[4546,4549,5438,4447,5440,3931,5439],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-2","category-robotics-2","tag-first","tag-frc","tag-gazebo","tag-robotics","tag-ross","tag-solidworks","tag-urdf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}