Explanation about the parameter: 'robot_description'

[wilhem]

Documentation page(s) concerned
Link to the concerned page.

What is the problem with the current documentation?
In many launch files, the robot_description parameter has been replace by the following string:
Link

Describe how you would fix it
What's the purpose of it? Why it cannot be passed the whole urdf/xacro content to that parameter?

[elad-eyal]

@wilhem whatever code you pasted there, it is not visible in GitHub web interface

[wilhem]

Yes, I see.

The code I posted does not get formatted in this interface.
So I post a link to that line here: link

[skpawar1305]

Documentation page(s) concerned Link to the concerned page.

What is the problem with the current documentation? In many launch files, the robot_description parameter has been replace by the following string: Link

Describe how you would fix it What's the purpose of it? Why it cannot be passed the whole urdf/xacro content to that parameter?

it's just dummy, if set_robot_state_publisher param of the WebotsController is set to true, the mentioned data gets overriden with a service call