API changes in MoveIt releases
CollisionObjectmessages are now defined with aPose, and shapes and subframes are defined relative to the object's pose. This makes it easier to place objects with subframes and multiple shapes in the scene. This causes several changes:getFrameTransform()now returns this pose instead of the first shape's pose.- The Rviz plugin's manipulation tab now uses the object's pose instead of the shape pose to evaluate if object's are in the region of interest.
- Planning scene geometry text files (
.scene) have changed format. Loading old files is still supported. You can add a line0 0 0 0 0 0 1under each line with an asterisk to upgrade old files.
- add API for passing RNG to setToRandomPositionsNearBy
- Static member variable interface of the CollisionDetectorAllocatorTemplate for the string NAME was replaced with a virtual method
getName. - RobotModel no longer overrides empty URDF collision geometry by matching the visual geometry of the link.
- Planned trajectories are slow by default.
The default values of the
velocity_scaling_factorandacceleration_scaling_factorcan now be customized and default to 0.1 instead of 1.0. The values can be changed by setting the parametersdefault_acceleration_scaling_factoranddefault_velocity_scaling_factorin thejoint_limits.yamlof your robot'smoveit_configpackage. Consider setting them to values between 0.2 and 0.6, to allow for significant speedup/slowdown of your application. Additionally, you can always change the factors per request with the corresponding methods in the move_group_interface, the MoveGroupCommander or in the Rviz interface. (1890) - Extended the return value of
MoveitCommander.MoveGroup.plan()fromtrajectoryto a tuple of(success, trajectory, planning_time, error_code)to better match the C++ MoveGroupInterface (790) moveit_rviz.launch, generated by MSA, provides an argumentrviz_configto configure the rviz config to be used. The old boolean config argument was dropped. (1397)- Moved the example package
moveit_controller_manager_exampleinto moveit_tutorials - Requests to
get_planning_sceneservice without explicitly setting "components" now return full scene moveit_ros_planningno longer depends onmoveit_ros_perceptionCollisionRobotandCollisionWorldare combined into a singleCollisionEnvclass. This applies for all derived collision checkers asFCL,ALL_VALID,HYBRIDandDISTANCE_FIELD. Consequently,getCollisionRobot[Unpadded] / getCollisionWorldfunctions are replaced through agetCollisionEnvin the planning scene and return the new combined environment. This unified collision environment provides the union of all member functions ofCollisionRobotandCollisionWorld. Note that callingcheckRobotCollisionof theCollisionEnvdoes not take aCollisionRobotas an argument anymore as it is implicitly contained in theCollisionEnv.RobotTrajectoryprovides a copy constructor that allows a shallow (default) and deep copy of waypoints- Replace the redundant namespaces
robot_state::androbot_model::with the actual namespacemoveit::core::. The additional namespaces will disappear in the future (ROS2). - Moved the library
moveit_cpptomoveit_ros_planning. The classes are now in namespacemoveit_cpp, access viamoveit::planning_interfaceis deprecated. - The joint states of
passivejoints must be published in ROS and the CurrentStateMonitor will now wait for them as well. Their semantics dictate that they cannot be actively controlled, but they must be known to use the full robot state in collision checks. (moveit#2663) - Removed deprecated header
moveit/macros/deprecation.h. Use[[deprecated]]instead. - All uses of
MOVEIT_CLASS_FORWARDet. al. must now be followed by a semicolon for consistency (and to get -pedantic builds to pass for the codebase). - In case you start RViz in a namespace, the default topic for the trajectory visualization display now uses the relative instead of the absolute namespace (i.e.
<ns>/move_group/display_planned_pathinstead of/move_group/display_planned_path). RobotState::attachBody()now takes a unique_ptr instead of an owning raw pointer.- Moved the class
MoveItErrorCodefrom bothmoveit_ros_planningandmoveit_ros_planning_interfacetomoveit_core. The class now is in namespacemoveit::core, access viamoveit::planning_interfaceormoveit_cpp::PlanningComponentis deprecated. - End-effector markers in rviz are shown only if the eef's parent group is active and the parent link is part of that group. Before, these conditions were OR-connected. You might need to define additional end-effectors.
- Removed
ConstraintSampler::project()as there was no real difference tosample(). - Removed
TrajectoryExecutionManager::pushAndExecute()and the code associated to it. The code was unused and broken.
- Migration to
tf2API. - Replaced Eigen::Affine3d with Eigen::Isometry3d, which is computationally more efficient.
Simply find-replace occurences of Affine3d:
find . -iname "*.[hc]*" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's#Affine3#Isometry3#g' - The move_group capability
ExecuteTrajectoryServiceCapabilityhas been removed in favor of the improvedExecuteTrajectoryActionCapabilitycapability. Since Indigo, both capabilities were supported. If you still load default capabilities in yourconfig/launch/move_group.launch, you can just remove them from the capabilities parameter. The correct default capabilities will be loaded automatically. - Deprecated method
CurrentStateMonitor::waitForCurrentState(double wait_time)was finally removed. - Renamed
RobotState::getCollisionBodyTransformstogetCollisionBodyTransformas it returns a single transform only. - Removed deprecated class MoveGroup (was renamed to MoveGroupInterface).
- KinematicsBase: Deprecated members
tip_frame_,search_discretization_. Usetip_frames_andredundant_joint_discretization_instead. - KinematicsBase: Deprecated
initialize(robot_description, ...)in favour ofinitialize(robot_model, ...). Adapt your kinematics plugin to directly receive aRobotModel. See the KDL plugin for an example. - IK: Removed notion of IK attempts and redundant random seeding in RobotState::setFromIK(). Number of attempts is limited by timeout only. (#1288)
Remove parameters
kinematics_solver_attemptsfrom yourkinematics.yamlconfig files. RDFLoader/RobotModelLoader: removed TinyXML-based API (moveit#1254)- Deprecated
EndEffectorInteractionStylegot removed fromRobotInteraction(moveit#1287) Use the correspondingInteractionStyledefinitions instead
- In the C++ MoveGroupInterface class the
plan()method returns aMoveItErrorCodeobject and not a boolean.static_cast<bool>(mgi.plan())can be used to achieve the old behavior. CurrentStateMonitor::waitForCurrentState(double wait_time)has been renamed towaitForCompleteStateto better reflect the actual semantics. Additionally a new methodwaitForCurrentState(const ros::Time t = ros::Time::now())was added that actually waits until all joint updates are newer thant.- To avoid deadlocks, the PlanningSceneMonitor listens to its own EventQueue, monitored by an additional spinner thread. Providing a custom NodeHandle, a user can control which EventQueue and processing thread is used instead. Providing a default NodeHandle, the old behavior (using the global EventQueue) can be restored, which is however not recommended.