I am trying to convert a robot specified in URDF into SDF by using the URDF parser from Gazebo (gz sdf -p in.urdf > out.sdf).
By default, links connected by fixed joints in URDF get lumped together into single link, as SDF apparently didn't support fixed links in the past:[1]
By adding the tag <disableFixedJointLumping> this lumping is deactivated, and a fixed joint in SDF is approximated by a revolute joint with minPos=maxPos=0. This however doesn't work for me as the joint still allows minimal oscillations.
As I read here [2], a new tag <preserveFixedJoint> has supposedly been added that will make the SDF file have a true fixed joint. However, upon using the tag, the URDF parser throws the following warning:
Warning [parser.cc:778] XML Element[preserveFixedJoint], child of element[joint] not defined in SDF. Ignoring[preserveFixedJoint]. You may have an incorrect SDF file, or an sdformat version that doesn't support this element.
Is this tag not part of the final build yet, or can i somehow update my SDFormat to get access to it? I am using Gazebo 7.0.0
[1] https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat/issues/131/disabling-lumping-on-a-fixed-joint-in-a
[2] https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/352/add-preservefixedjoint-option-to-the-urdf/diff
Example URDF:
<robot name="robot">
<link name="base">
<inertial>
<mass value="1"/>
<inertia ixx="1" ixy="0" ixz="0" iyy="1" iyz="0" izz="1"/>
</inertial>
</link>
<joint name="base_to_link" type="fixed">
<parent link="base"/>
<child link="link"/>
</joint>
<link name="link">
<inertial>
<mass value="1"/>
<inertia ixx="1" ixy="0" ixz="0" iyy="1" iyz="0" izz="1"/>
</inertial>
</link>
<gazebo reference="base_to_link">
<disableFixedJointLumping>true</disableFixedJointLumping>
<preserveFixedJoint>true</preserveFixedJoint>
</gazebo>
</robot>
Gets converted to:
...
<joint name='base_to_link' type='revolute'>
<child>link</child>
<parent>base</parent>
<axis>
<limit>
<lower>0</lower>
<upper>0</upper>
</limit>
</axis>
...
</joint>
...
Originally posted by FabianMene on Gazebo Answers with karma: 3 on 2018-11-19
Post score: 0
Original comments
Comment by nkoenig on 2018-11-20:
Can you post your URDF file? Also, did the resulting SDF output have fixed joints when using ?
Comment by FabianMene on 2018-11-20:
I edited the OP to include a simple example. In short, the tag is completely ignored. If I specify alongside, I get a revolute joint with 0 range, otherwise I don't get a joint at all, but the two links are lumped into a single unit.
