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WIP: Use anchors and aliases for each joint in controller config + cleanup #554

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This PR uses anchors and aliases on each robot joint and sets indentation level to 2 spaces (there were mixed indentation). This makes the following benefits:

  • Same indentation level (set to 2 but can be anything)
  • Consistency with string values (removed dquotes)
  • PID and trajectory/goal section is easier on the eyes...
  • Adding a prefix to joint names is easier (less search and replace)

Only did the changes for the UR3. If you think this change could be merged, I will modify the other UR config files.

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Thanks for taking the effort diving into this. Please see my comments and if this is going to be merged, all controller files should be handled I think.

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*joint1: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
*joint2: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
*joint3: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
*joint4: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
*joint5: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
*joint6: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
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I am not sure whether using anchors for this really improves things. Yes, it is less code duplication, but in my opinion this is also less readable.

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If someone uses the prefix below in their urdf:

<xacro:ur3_robot prefix="ur3_"/>

All the joints must be renamed, with anchors/aliases you only need to rename 6 joint names. Would something like this be better ?

    *shoulder_pan_joint:  {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
    *shoulder_lift_joint: {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
    *elbow_joint:         {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
    *wrist_1_joint:       {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
    *wrist_2_joint:       {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}
    *wrist_3_joint:       {trajectory: 0.2, goal: 0.1}

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have you considered using subst_value? I don't believe you'd need to manually rename anything.

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This would work with the /my_controller/joints because they are values, but I would need to remap the constraints, gains and velocity_ff namespaces:

 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_elbow_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_elbow_joint/trajectory: 0.2
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_shoulder_lift_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_shoulder_lift_joint/trajectory: 0.2
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_shoulder_pan_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_shoulder_pan_joint/trajectory: 0.2
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_1_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_1_joint/trajectory: 0.2
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_2_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_2_joint/trajectory: 0.2
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_3_joint/goal: 0.1
 * /pos_joint_traj_controller/constraints/ur3_wrist_3_joint/trajectory: 0.2

When adding new controllers I would have to remap the new controller namespace. With the anchors solution I don't have to bother, it scales well when adding new controllers. I may be missing something...

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I don't understand what you write here.

But perhaps I also don't fully understand what you're trying to achieve.

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Something to keep in mind: anchors et al. are not part of the YAML standard.

They never made it past the draft/proposed state of YAML 1.1 (IIRC).

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fmauch commented Jan 27, 2023

I don't necessarily want to have this closed by a bot, hence commenting on this.

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