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Package Summary

This package contains a recent version of the Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL), distributed by the Orocos Project. It is a meta-package that depends on orocos_kdl which contains the c++ version and python_orocos_kdl which contains the generated python bindings

  • Maintainer: Ruben Smits <ruben.smits AT intermodalics DOT eu>
  • Author: Ruben Smits, Erwin Aertbelien, Orocos Developers
  • License: LGPL
  • External website: http://www.orocos.org/kdl

For hydro onward, see orocos_kdl.

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What can I use KDL for?

KDL examples

See the examples page

Building KDL

First install the external dependencies such as sip4, python, etc.

  $ rosdep install kdl

Now build KDL

  $ rosmake kdl

The "rosmake" command checks out code from the KDL svn repository (see kul-ros-pkg).

External Documentation

KDL is a 3rd party library that is part of the Orocos project KDL homepage.


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