Real-Time Physics Simulation Forum 2020-12-07T14:50:50+00:00 https://pybullet.org/Bullet/phpBB3/app.php/feed/topic/13119 2020-12-07T14:50:50+00:00 2020-12-07T14:50:50+00:00 https://pybullet.org/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=43210#p43210 <![CDATA[Attaching an end effector to a robot]]> I have two URDF files corresponding to a robot and a gripper/end-effector.
My goal is to attach the end-effector to the robot in a pybullet simulation and have Inverse Kinematics work by returning joint angles for all the joints in both bodies, by supplying the end-effector frame.

The program I'm building is such that merging or combining the two URDF's is a last option. I would rather connect both bodies by using p.createConstraint() during run time.

I've successfully managed to join the end-effector to the robot by using p.createConstraint() so that they move together. But when I supply the end-effector frame to Inverse Kinematics, p.calculateInverseKinematics() returns joint angles only for the end-effector. In other words, the Inverse Kinematics function is treating the setup as two separate bodies.

Is there any way to get Inverse Kinematics to work on both bodies by creating a constraint?

If this is not the best way to do it, or it won't work, what method would you suggest?

Statistics: Posted by Dyu — Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:50 pm

]]>