Great work Francisco, thanks for the contributions!<div><br></div><div>However, how does your kdl_wrapper package differ from the established URDF <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/kdl_parser?distro=hydro">kdl_parser</a> package and MoveIt's <a href="https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit_ros/tree/hydro-devel/planning/kdl_kinematics_plugin">kdl_kinematics_plugin</a> and kdl-based <a href="https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit_core/tree/hydro-devel/dynamics_solver">dynamics solver</a>? Perhaps these packages could be merged/centralized to prevent duplication of functionality?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dave<br><br>On Friday, December 13, 2013, Francisco Viña wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi,<br>
<br>
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) is proud to announce
the release of <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/kth-ros-pkg" target="_blank">kth-ros-pkg</a>.
Some of our packages include:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/biotac_driver" target="_blank">biotac_driver</a>:</b>
catkinization of UPenn's Haptics group's low level drivers for
the <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/BioTac" target="_blank">Biotac sensor</a>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/force_torque_tools" target="_blank">force_torque_tools</a>:</b>
force-torque sensor calibration and gravity compensation.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/kdl_acc_solver" target="_blank">kdl_acc_solver</a>:</b>
KDL solver for calculating cartesian accelerations from joint
positions, velocities and accelerations.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/kdl_wrapper" target="_blank">kdl_wrapper</a>:</b>
C++ wrapper for easily getting KDL kinematic chains and using
KDL kinematic solvers with robots defined in ROS through URDF in
the parameter server.</li>
</ul>
Future packages will include :<br>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/door_opening_control" target="_blank">door_opening_control</a>:
adaptive controllers for simultaneous control and estimation of
kinematic parameters of sliding and revolute doors.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://wiki.ros.org/door_opening_control" target="_blank"></a>As well as
adaptive control/kinematics estimation for tool calibration, joint
human-robot manipulation of objects, etc.<br>
<br>
Our github repo:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/kth-ros-pkg" target="_blank">https://github.com/kth-ros-pkg</a><br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Francisco<br>
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