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Investigate BDAII ROS2 driver #11

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dcolli23 opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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Investigate BDAII ROS2 driver #11

dcolli23 opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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BDAII has been actively developing a ROS2 driver for Spot for a while now. When first investigating this in early 2023, the driver wasn't in a state that we could use. Now that the lab has begun the switch to ROS2 and the driver is far more developed, we should heavily consider using this.

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  • Investigate the ROS2 driver
    • Is there any core functionality missing?
      • Ensure that arm control is fully implemented.
  • Plan out how the driver would be used.
    • Would we run the driver on the laptop? On the core?
    • Would we continue development with the Python routines?
      • It's likely that the data collection routines should stay in Python given ROS2 bandwidth complaints.
      • If we do continue Python routine development, would we need interface shims for the actual sending/receiving of messages?
        • This could be a lot of work and confusing to people onboarding in the future.
      • Instead, it might be more reasonable to build strong walls between what works with ROS and what works with the Python API directly.
@dcolli23 dcolli23 self-assigned this Jan 12, 2024
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