[ros-users] New urdf_tools Package

David Lu!! davidvlu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 20:14:28 UTC 2010


Thanks for the quick turnaround time Konrad!

The new documentation will be up as soon as the wiki recrawls my package.

-DL!!

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Konrad Banachowicz <konradb3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I renamed joint_state_publisher to oro_joint_state_publisher.
> You are free to use joint_state_publisher name for your package.
> Pozdrawiam
> Konrad Banachowicz
>
>
> 2010/10/4 David Lu!! <davidvlu at gmail.com>
>>
>> I've made a new version of the package as we discussed, but it looks
>> like there's already a joint_state_publisher package in the orocos
>> tools stack. Should I look for another name?
>>
>> -David!!
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Wim Meeussen <meeussen at willowgarage.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> 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?
>> >
>> > I really like the idea of the joint_state_publisher gui, it makes
>> > visualizing and debugging a urdf file much easier. This would even
>> > allow you to use rviz to debug a urdf file. This is something we
>> > should absorb into the robot_model stack (we'll have to look into the
>> > dependencies).
>> >
>> > For the easy_state_publisher, I'd think that if we give the new
>> > joint_state_publisher the ability to run without a gui, it would be
>> > possible to run it in combination with the current
>> > robot_state_publisher offers the same (and much more!) functionality.
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Wim
>> >
>> >
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