Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
The descartes_trajectory package
- Maintainer status: developed
- Maintainer: Jorge Nicho <jnicho AT swri DOT org>, Jonathan Meyer <jonathan.meyer AT swri DOT org>, Shaun Edwards <sedwards AT swri DOT org>
- Author: Jorge Nicho <jnicho AT swri DOT org>
- License: Apache2.0
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-industrial-consortium/descartes.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
The descartes_trajectory package
- Maintainer: Jorge Nicho <jnicho AT swri DOT org>, Jonathan Meyer <jonathan.meyer AT swri DOT org>, Shaun Edwards <sedwards AT swri DOT org>
- Author: Jorge Nicho <jnicho AT swri DOT org>
- License: Apache2.0
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-industrial-consortium/descartes.git (branch: indigo-devel)
Overview
Reference Implementations
Descartes provides reference implementations for the most common ways one might wish to specify a robot path. For more specialized requirements, you can create your own trajectory points using the interface from descartes_core.
JointTrajectoryPt
descartes_trajectory::JointTrajectoryPt represents a robot configuration that is defined by specifying the position of every active joint in the robot. This point can be optionally constructed with a nominal joint position and a set of tolerances for each joint.
CartTrajectoryPt
descartes_trajectory::CartTrajectoryPt represents a robot configuration where the robot's tool tip is at a specified 6-D pose. Unlike a joint trajectory point, a Cartesian point may have many possible joint solutions. Both the Cartesian and rotational components of a pose can be toleranced.
The sample space for a given Cartesian point is generated by taking the bounds of the tolerances and stepping through them with a user defined discretizing step size. The points are internally represented by a transformation matrix combining first a translation to the tool (x,y,z) coordinates followed by a moving-axis rotation about X, Y, Z in that order.
AxialSymmetricPt
descartes_trajectory::AxialSymmetricPt represents a specialization of a Cartesian trajectory point with a free axis of rotation. A user may specify a nominal pose for the end-effector and an axis (X_AXIS, Y_AXIS, or Z_AXIS) representing the axis of the nominal pose about which to search for solutions. All other tolerances are held to zero. This is useful for applications like blending where one does not care the exact yaw of the tool.