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@urfeex urfeex commented Oct 10, 2025

Add support for sending external force-torque measurements through RTDE.

This can be especially useful if you want to inject fake measurements into a URSim simulated robot.

There's also an example with a simple TUI doing exactly that.

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Should we consider adding ft_rtde_input_enable() command to the script command interface, then you can use force_torque input together with the driver?
Then it would also be possible to use the driver with an external force torque sensor.


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The values reported from the robot are rotated to the base coordinate system of the robot.
Hence, they will not be the same as the ones sent to the robot. Align the robot's TCP the same
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For them to be the same, align the TCP frame with robots base frame.

Co-authored-by: Mads Holm Peters <[email protected]>
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