## Adding Third Party Controllers To use a third-party controller with robosuite, you'll need to: 1. Create a new class that subclasses one of the composite controllers in `robosuite/controllers/composite/composite_controller.py`. 2. Register the composite controller with the decorator `@register_composite_controller`. 3. Implement composite specific functionality that ultimately provides control input to the underlying `part_controller`'s. 4. Import the new class so that it gets added to robosuite's `REGISTERED_COMPOSITE_CONTROLLERS_DICT` via the `@register_composite_controller` decorator. 5. Provide controller specific configs and the new controller's `type` in a json file. For the new composite controllers subclassing `WholeBody`, you'll mainly need to update `joint_action_policy`. We provide an example of how to use a third-party `WholeBodyMinkIK` composite controller with robosuite, in the `robosuite/examples/third_party_controller/` directory. You can run the command `python teleop_mink.py` example script to see a third-party controller in action. Note: to run this specific example, you'll need to `pip install mink`. Steps 1 and 2: In `robosuite/examples/third_party_controller/mink_controller.py`: ``` @register_composite_controller class WholeBodyMinkIK(WholeBody): name = "WHOLE_BODY_MINK_IK" ``` Step 3: In `robosuite/examples/third_party_controller/mink_controller.py`, add logic specific to the new composite controller: ``` self.joint_action_policy = IKSolverMink(...) ``` Step 4: In `teleop_mink.py`, we import: ``` from robosuite.examples.third_party_controller.mink_controller import WholeBodyMinkIK ``` Step 5: In `robosuite/examples/third_party_controller/default_mink_ik_gr1.json`, we add configs specific to our new composite controller. and also set the `type` to match the `name` specified in `WholeBodyMinkIK`: ``` { "type": "WHOLE_BODY_MINK_IK", # set the correct type "composite_controller_specific_configs": { ... }, ... } ```