[ros-users] New urdf_tools Package

[David Lu!!]

Those names sound good. I'll change them in the next release.

Thinking about it now, easy_state_publisher does seem like a special
case of joint_controller. I never made the connection since I had
written the one in C++ and the other in Python. Similarly, it might
make more sense to change easy_tf_publisher to an option for
robot_state_publisher where it doesn't require joint_state messages,
and just publishes transforms with all the joint angles equal to zeros

Thanks for the feedback,
David!!

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM, John Hsu <johnhsu at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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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