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This PR adds actuation in the form of virtual springs and dampers to GELLO ROS 2:
Each Dynamixel motor has an internal PID controller that can be configured to behave like a virtual spring and damper. Damping is useful to prevent the operator from moving the GELLO arm faster than the real robot can follow. The spring-like behavior allows to support individual joints that could sag to an unwanted position when having 7 degrees of freedom.
For this, the following changes are proposed:

  • A new, more generalized Dynamixel motor driver is introduced. To avoid breaking changes with non-ROS2 parts of this repository, the driver is now part of the franka_gello_state_publisher package.
  • Refactored franka_gello_state_publisher into modular components
  • Added functionality for configurable virtual springs and dampers using Dynamixel internal current-based position mode

peterrw-franka and others added 23 commits July 25, 2025 09:28
using Dynamixel internal current-based position mode
Merge in ROBL/gello_software from feat/actuation-publisher to feat/actuation

* commit '9ed96850b45b820d928dab07339d7ff16cd38752':
  add: configurable virtual springs and dampers using Dynamixel internal current-based position mode
…lses

Merge in ROBL/gello_software from feat/actuation-goal-position-radians to feat/actuation

* commit 'cb5fc74661f0a2325b5fa8c82aeb1070db138841':
  chg: configure goal position in rad instead pulses
- Split into hardware and config modules
- Add graceful shutdown with signal handling
- Fix dual-arm parameter isolation
Merge in ROBL/gello_software from chg/refactor-franka-gello-state-publisher to feat/actuation

* commit '5302a697cf0a2def851cf1ff4b2d38ba0c492ca2':
  chg: refactor franka_gello_state_publisher into modular components
…cy (in case of jerky follower behavior)

Merge in ROBL/gello_software from feat/usb-latency-troubleshooting to feat/actuation

* commit 'b1b656426b8667cb942c4748b5d655c7be8279f6':
  ADD: Instructions to improve USB latency
…side effect of incorrect joint data being send from the robot

Merge in ROBL/gello_software from fix/incorrect_joint_states_before_first_command to feat/actuation

* commit 'd58470887e48e8820516441e785a5af28c5972e2':
  fix: franka ros2 unittests
  make tests work
  no longer block during on_activate() which had the side effect of incorrect joint data being send from the robot
@AndreasJosefGassner AndreasJosefGassner merged commit 4a6b3d9 into main Nov 17, 2025
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@AndreasJosefGassner AndreasJosefGassner deleted the feat/actuation branch November 17, 2025 10:43
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