From 9397f47ac158fe5976719f33101334371bc15d44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Timm Andersen Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:04:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated readme.md Updated readme.md to include information that the driver won't work reliably on a virtual machine --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 48e84a5..3dabb07 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ A new driver for the UR3/UR5/UR10 robot arms from Universal Robots. It is design ## Installation +**As the driver communicates with the robot via ethernet and depends on reliable continous communication, it is not possible to reliably control a UR from a virtual machine.** + Just clone the repository into your catkin working directory and make it with ```catkin_make```. Note that this package depends on ur_msgs, hardware_interface, and controller_manager so it cannot directly be used with ROS versions prior to hydro.