franka_ros

Note

franka_ros is not supported on Windows.

Before continuing with this chapter, please install or compile franka_ros following the installation instructions.

You can access the changelog of franka_ros at this link

../../../../_images/ros-architecture.png — Schematic overview of the `franka_ros` packages.

The franka_ros metapackage integrates libfranka into ROS and ROS control. Here, we introduce its packages and we also give a short how-to for writing controllers.

All parameters passed to launch files in this section come with default values, so they can be omitted if using the default network addresses and ROS namespaces. Make sure the source command was called with the setup script from your workspace:

source /path/to/catkin_ws/devel/setup.sh