Kobuki rendered in ARMOR
Indie & Desktop differential drive education ROS 2 DOF

Kobuki

by Yujin Robot

Yujin Robot's low-cost ROS research base — the differential-drive platform underneath TurtleBot 2, with bump, cliff, and gyro sensing built into a simple two-wheel chassis.

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Model

10Links
9Joints
2Actuated DOF
2Meshes

Mesh formats: DAE

Kobuki is Yujin Robot’s low-cost mobile research base — the differential-drive chassis best known as the foundation of TurtleBot 2. A round base carries bump, cliff, and gyro sensors along with a front and rear caster, aimed at teaching navigation and ROS fundamentals on simple, well-documented hardware.

The mechanism

Two continuous wheel joints are the robot’s only real actuated DOF — a straightforward differential-drive base. The front and rear casters are modeled as fixed collision cylinders rather than passive rotating joints, and the gyro and cliff sensors are all fixed reference frames with no motion of their own.

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This links directly to kobuki, Yujin Robot’s own repository. ARMOR links directly to that repository rather than re-hosting anything, so what you get is exactly what Yujin Robot publishes, unmodified.

License & attribution

Source code
BSD-3-Clause
Model & mesh files
BSD-3-Clause
Attribution
kobuki_description (kobuki) — Yujin Robot, Daniel Stonier, Marcus Liebhardt, and contributors — BSD 3-Clause License. package.xml declares "BSD"; kobuki_description itself carries no LICENSE file, but three sibling packages in the same monorepo (kobuki_node, kobuki_random_walker, kobuki_testsuite) carry the real BSD 3-Clause text from the same authors and organization. See NOTES.md for the full reasoning.

ARMOR does not host or redistribute this model. Choosing “Open in ARMOR” downloads the files directly from Yujin Robot’s own repository, unmodified. Your use of the model is governed by the license above.

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ARMOR is an independent tool published by DCDC LLC. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Yujin Robot Co., Ltd. "Kobuki" is used here only to identify the robot this file describes. This model is downloaded directly from Yujin Robot's own repository under the BSD 3-Clause License, which you accept by downloading.

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