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This PR implements a new broadcasting controller based on the PoseSensor semantic component introduced in ros-controls/ros2_control#1775.

As described in the PoseSensor PR, my primary use-case for this is the publishing of tcp poses from robot arms. This can be more accurate than calculating forward kinematics, as robot calibrations etc. can be considered by the robot. Settings on the robot side concerning tool offsets etc. can also be included by this (at least for UR and kuka RSI). The ROS 1 ur_robot_driver used to publish this transform directly from within the hardware interface, but in ROS 2 there is not yet a standard way for providing this information. A PR for the UR ROS 2 driver already exists at UniversalRobots/Universal_Robots_ROS2_Driver#1108.

This controller publishes poses directly as geometry_msgs::msg::PoseStampeds and as tf transforms (can be disabled).

RobertWilbrandt and others added 3 commits October 9, 2024 12:25
Co-authored-by: Felix Exner (fexner) <felix_mauch@web.de>
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Looks good to me! As @RobertWilbrandt wrote, we tested this in the UR driver already.

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bmagyar commented Oct 9, 2024

Would you see use of this being a chainable controller at the same time?

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I don't have much experience with chaining controllers, but this sounds like a good extension. I can work on that and extend this PR.

@bmagyar bmagyar merged commit 7c89c17 into ros-controls:master Oct 26, 2024
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fmauch commented Oct 29, 2024

@bmagyar This should probably be backported? The semantic component has already been backported.

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@Mergifyio backport humble iron

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backport humble iron

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* Implement new PoseBroadcaster controller (#1311)

(cherry picked from commit 7c89c17)

# Conflicts:
#	doc/controllers_index.rst

* Update controllers_index.rst

* Fix API in tests

* Add hardware_interface_testing dependency

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Co-authored-by: RobertWilbrandt <wilbrandt@fzi.de>
Co-authored-by: Christoph Fröhlich <christophfroehlich@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bence Magyar <bence.magyar.robotics@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Christoph Froehlich <christoph.froehlich@ait.ac.at>
christophfroehlich added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 1, 2024
* Implement new PoseBroadcaster controller (#1311)

(cherry picked from commit 7c89c17)

* Fix API in tests

* Add hardware_interface_testing dependency

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Co-authored-by: RobertWilbrandt <wilbrandt@fzi.de>
Co-authored-by: Christoph Froehlich <christoph.froehlich@ait.ac.at>
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