#!/usr/bin/env python # # Quick script to fix up the old fuerte hand urdf for use here. # Fixes changed tags, re-writes filepaths, removes pr2/shadow specific gazebo # stuff, etc. # # Input is the full hand urdf. Generated from the shadow_robot sr_description # package under fuerte as follows: # # $ rosrun xacro xacro.py robots/shadowhand_motor_biotac.urdf.xacro > shadowhand_motor_biotac.orig.urdf # # Then run over with this: # # $ ./contrib/fix_urdf.py urdf/shadowhand_motor_biotac.orig.urdf urdf/shadowhand.urdf # import sys, os import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET def usage(): print "Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " URDF_FILE OUT_FILE\n" sys.exit(3) if len(sys.argv) != 3: usage() in_file = sys.argv[1] out_file = sys.argv[2] namespaces = { 'controller': 'http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/xmlschema/#controller', 'sensor': "http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/xmlschema/#sensor", 'interface': "http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/xmlschema/#interface", } for prefix, uri in namespaces.iteritems(): ET.register_namespace(prefix, uri) tree = ET.parse(in_file) root = tree.getroot() # Dump tree #for elem in tree.getiterator(): # print elem.tag, elem.attrib # Tweak robot name root.find('.').attrib['name'] = "shadowhand" # Re-write the filenames for the meshes for mesh in root.iter('mesh'): fn = mesh.attrib['filename'] (path, name) = os.path.split(fn) new_file = "package://sr_grasp_description/meshes/" + name #print fn + " -> " + new_file mesh.attrib['filename'] = new_file # Fix scale, did the units change? if mesh.attrib['scale'] == "0.001 0.001 0.001" and not name.endswith(".stl") and not name.endswith("biotac_thumb_adapter.dae"): mesh.attrib['scale'] = "0.1 0.1 0.1" # Re-move sr_gazebo_ros_controller_manager for tag in root.findall('.//controller:sr_gazebo_ros_controller_manager/..', namespaces=namespaces): root.remove(tag) # For now remove the sensor:contact as Gazebo doesn't like them for tag in root.findall('.//sensor:contact/..', namespaces=namespaces): root.remove(tag) # For now remove all gazebo tags! for tag in root.findall('.//gazebo', namespaces=namespaces): root.remove(tag) # remove all transmissions, we add gazebo ones in a different file for tag in root.findall('.//transmission', namespaces=namespaces): root.remove(tag) for tag in root.findall('.//material[@name="BiotacGreen"]', namespaces=namespaces): root.remove(tag) # Increase the joint effort limits. Can't seem to get the simulated motors to # go any faster, so we increase the limit here so we can have large P values in # the controllers and get the hand moving at a speed close to the real hand, # Otherwise it moves too slowley. for tag in root.findall('.//joint/limit[@effort="10"]', namespaces=namespaces): tag.attrib['effort'] = "100" # Write it back out tree.write(out_file)