Joint naming convention #466
ted-miller
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+1 for updating older packages to the new convention, but it may be prudent to note the old convention in the tutorial if people reference older forks of the support package. I work with an MH5 (long-variant) on a daily basis, but understand them to be less common. And have an old open PR #380 which updated multiple things with the MH5 support package including the change in naming convention. |
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I received a support request from a user who is getting the error
Failed to find topic_list parameter
. Following the advice from here and here, we determined thatcontroller_joint_names
was not set correctly.It seems that naming convention changed at some point to include the joint number. (
joint_s
tojoint_1_s
)This is problematic because the usage tutorial doesn't show the new convention.
Looking through the various support packages, some older robot models (such as MH5) are still using the old convention.
Which is better:
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