Is it possible to use the Planning Components Visualizer to directly control the arm?
Or is there something else that exists with similar functionality?
I want to be able to move around the physical arm rather than just the visualization of one.
Originally posted by John Hoare on ROS Answers with karma: 765 on 2011-09-22
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The arm navigation warehouse viewer does exactly this and a lot more. The tutorial on it is a little out of date, but still should largely work: http://www.ros.org/wiki/arm_navigation/Tutorials/Warehouse%20Viewer .
Make sure to update your debs as we just released the arm_navigation_experimental stack with some important bug fixes.
Look particularly at Section 4.2.3 . This script now creates a planning_scene_warehouse_viewer_<your_robot_name>.launch file in your auto-generated arm navigation application directory which you can run directly. Running alongside a running system should just involve filling out topics for your controllers and selecting the "Use Robot Data" flag.
We'll be updating the tutorial soon.
Originally posted by egiljones with karma: 2031 on 2011-09-22
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Comment by ZdenekM on 2011-11-29:
I'm looking forward for updated tutorial... :-)