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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Bernardo Ronquillo Japn is an Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics expert who has worked for top technology companies since 1995, including Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, Gran Telescopio Canarias, Altran, and Alestis Aerospace. Using his skills and experience, he founded The Robot Academy, where he develops open source hardware and software solutions for engineers and makers: Social Robot IO (2015), for the stimulation of children with autistic spectrum disorder; Robot JUS (2016), which helps engineers get deeper technical insights with the Robot Operating System (ROS) when using low-complexity hardware; and IIoT All-in-One (2018) as an industrial IoT training package for assisting companies in their digital transformation process.
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Verifying a Gazebo model and viewing the URDF

Once the SDF definition has been completed in the gopigo.urdf file, you should perform some checks to ensure that the file can be read by Gazebo. To do so, navigate to the folder where the model resides:

$ roscd gazebo_basics/urdf

The roscd command is a very useful ROS command that's equivalent to the Linux cd command, but specifies the paths that are relative to a given package. It's also easier to use because all you have to do is provide the name of the package that you want to move to the Terminal. The first part, gazebo_basics, retrieves the absolute path of the package, as well as the second part of the folder or subfolder path you want to show. This ROS command, as well as other useful ones, will be covered in detail in the next chapter, under the Shell commands subsection.

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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Bernardo Ronquillo Japn is an Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics expert who has worked for top technology companies since 1995, including Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, Gran Telescopio Canarias, Altran, and Alestis Aerospace. Using his skills and experience, he founded The Robot Academy, where he develops open source hardware and software solutions for engineers and makers: Social Robot IO (2015), for the stimulation of children with autistic spectrum disorder; Robot JUS (2016), which helps engineers get deeper technical insights with the Robot Operating System (ROS) when using low-complexity hardware; and IIoT All-in-One (2018) as an industrial IoT training package for assisting companies in their digital transformation process.
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