The ROS-Industrial Consortium is tackling a topic that is of interest to the whole ROS community: conversion of CAD data to ROS-interpretable file types (e.g. URDF, SRDF). This work will be conducted over the next three years by the TU Delft Robotics Institute. To help us make ROS even more convenient to use:

• Click to read a public version of the CAD to ROS FTP proposal.
• Participants must be current ROS-I Consortium members. Join now!
• A full proposal is available upon request: paul.hvass@swri.org .

EXAMPLE CAD DATA (LEFT IMAGE) IS CONVERTED TO A URDF, WHICH IS SHOWN IN RVIZ (RIGHT IMAGE)