QuadrupedPOPI
POPI is an open-source quadruped robot designed as a student project, meant to be accessible for education and research and rebuildable by anyone.
- Level
- Advanced
- Buildability
- 70/100
- Buildable with some effort
- Cost
- Not stated
kdl_parser
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
A C++ package that converts robot descriptions from URDF into KDL, the Kinematics and Dynamics Library's tree representation.
Made by ROS core stacks.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros/kdl_parser (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 5a5c1b9 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 5a5c1b9 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Converts URDF robot models into a KDL tree representation.
- Provides C++ code for this URDF-to-KDL conversion.
- Originally part of the ros/robot_model repository, now maintained separately.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 5a5c1b9.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 6 May 2026 on rolling
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
- Quadruped
Found by Robotheca in popi_software/towr/xpp/xpp_vis/package.xml (opens in a new tab)
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.