Hi David,
Thank you for creating these tools!  I am sure they will come in handy in
lots of situations.

Might I suggest renaming joint_controller to joint_state_publisher or
fake_joint_state_publisher?  Also, is easy_state_publisher is a special case
of joint_controller?
John

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:46 AM, David Lu!! <davidlu@wustl.edu> wrote:

> Hey all,
> I wanted to announce a new package that resulted from my work this
> past summer. It's a handful of tools I've found useful for building
> urdf models. It's a stack with the clever name, "urdf_tools".
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/urdf_tools
>
> https://wu-ros-pkg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wu-ros-pkg/stacks/urdf_tools/trunk/
>
> There are four packages inside.
>  * easy_state_publisher - Similar to robot_state_publisher, but
> doesn't require any input. Just outputs zeroed joint states or
> transforms for any given urdf model.
>  * joint_controller - Publishes joint states using a GUI interface
>  * arm_kinematics - My attempt at a generic kinematics package not
> coupled to the PR2 hardware
>  * simmechanics_to_urdf - The biggest package of all of them, used for
> converting CAD-like models to URDF.
>
> More information is on the respective wiki pages. Questions feedback
> and bug reports are most welcome.
> -David Lu!!
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