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Spot Arm URDF appears to be faulty #143

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EceChaik opened this issue Sep 20, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #144
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Spot Arm URDF appears to be faulty #143

EceChaik opened this issue Sep 20, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #144

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@EceChaik
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Hi,

It seems that, at least in our lab and for our Spot robot, the spot_arm urdf file provided, does not match the real system.
For example, Boston Dynamics provides a tf publisher for the position of the hand relative to the body, which corresponds to the real-world location of the end-effector, but is very different to the one predicted by the urdf when visualized in rviz.
Also, in terms of simulation, the mass values provided for the links are too large, the real robot arm weighs close to 5Kg in total.
I have created a modified xacro file, which at least in our case, appears to be the correct one and when used with the robot, the urdf is aligned with the locations published by Boston Dynamics.
Let me know if I should do a pull request in case it is of interest. Or if I am the only one who has run into this issue.
@heuristicus
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I don't have access to a spot with an arm so can't verify any of the arm components, though they were all submitted by people who did have access to the arm. It would be great if you made a PR with your changes, and have some videos of the problem before and after the changes.

@heuristicus
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A better option might be if you replicate the xacro from spot_ros2 found at https://github.com/bdaiinstitute/spot_ros2/tree/main/spot_description, BD AI institute do a lot of work with the arm and so have spent a lot of time getting that right.

@EceChaik
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Just checked the spot_ros2 implementation you provided, clearly there are big differences compared to the urdf hosted here. Perhaps I'll find the time to use it with the real robot soon, then upload some videos with all the different urds.

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Merge with spot_arm urdf from spot_ros2 EceChaik/spot_ros
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