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Hi all,

I am currently trying to get my head around ros_control. And I am not sure I fully understand the example given in the overview of ros_control's wiki, the example is show in this image:

image description http://wiki.ros.org/ros_control?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=gazebo_ros_control.png

This example actually shows 2 PID:

  • one in the real robot: PID loop to follow effort setpoint, in a grey box
  • one in a joint_position_controller : PID Controller, in a yellow box

What I understand is that the grey PID is a low-level current control and the yellow PID is a low-level torque control. This is better seen on the block diagram below, which is my understanding of the way things work.

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Now in order to get to know more about it I have checked the code for EffortJointInterface in this source file. It turns out EffortJointInterface derives from JointCommandInterface. These classes are nearly empty.

Hence my questions:

  • can someone confirm my block diagram is right?
  • what is EffortJointInterface doing if there is nothing inside the class?

Thanks,

Antoine.


Originally posted by arennuit on ROS Answers with karma: 955 on 2014-07-23

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Comment by Adolfo Rodriguez T on 2015-01-23:
Is this question still valid or can it be closed?. Since it was asked many interactions have taken place in the robot control SIG.

Comment by arennuit on 2015-01-23:
Question now answered below. Thanks ;)

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Please check Adolfo Rodriguez's RosCon 2014 lecture, it gives interesting insight and much more detail on the above.


Originally posted by arennuit with karma: 955 on 2015-01-23

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