Clearpath Husky customized configuration not showing up

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So I followed http://wiki.ros.org/husky_bringup/Tut... . I and ended up with this file husky_customization/husky_custom_description/urdf/custom_description.urdf.xacro:

<robot name="husky" xmlns:xacro="http://ros.org/wiki/xacro">

  <xacro:arg name="laser_enabled" default="$(optenv HUSKY_LMS1XX_ENABLED false)" />
  <xacro:arg name="ur5_enabled" default="$(optenv HUSKY_UR5_ENABLED false)" />
  <xacro:arg name="kinect_enabled" default="false" />

  <xacro:include filename="$(find husky_description)/urdf/husky.urdf.xacro" />
  <xacro:husky_robot />

  <!-- Insert customization below, sample provided: -->

  <link name="avt_pan_link">
    <visual>
      <geometry>
        <mesh filename="package://husky_custom_description/meshes/Manta+G32C.dae" />
      </geometry>
    </visual>
    <collision>
      <origin xyz="0 0 0.0" rpy="0 0 0" />
      <geometry>
        <box size="0.32 0.25 0.14" rpy="0 0 0"/>
      </geometry>
    </collision>
  </link>

  <xacro:sensor_arch prefix="" parent="top_plate_link">
    <origin xyz="0 0 0.51" rpy="0 0 -3.14"/>
  </xacro:sensor_arch>

  <joint name="avt_pan_joint" type="continuous">
    <parent link="sensor_arch_mount_link" />
    <child link="avt_pan_link" />
    <axis xyz ="0 0 1"/>
    <origin xyz="0.05 0.0 0.0" rpy="0 0 1.57" />
  </joint>

</robot>

The visualization works just fine if I run everything on my laptop via roslaunch husky_viz view_robot.launch. It DOES NOT work on the actual Husky. The arch and the camera do not show up. I see that base.launch calls description.launch which references the HUSKY_DESCRIPTION var. Strangely enough, this var is set correctly:

$ echo $HUSKY_DESCRIPTION
<workspace>/src/husky_customization/husky_custom_description/urdf/custom_description.urdf.xacro

But when I call rosparam get /robot_description the returned URDF does not contain my custom description. There is no transform published for the arch/camera and the arch does not show up in rviz. What am I doing wrong?