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A simulation config for developing and validating hand-eye calibration: a UR5e on a linear rail with a wrist camera, a world-fixed ChArUco board for eye-in-hand calibration, and a wrist-mounted board watched by two fixed scene cameras for eye-to-hand.

What makes it a calibration test bench rather than another demo scene:

  • Every transform a calibration should recover is set exactly in the MJCF, so recovered results can be checked numerically instead of by eye.
  • The robot's startup pose doubles as the calibration pose: the wrist camera looks straight down its boresight at the world board while the wrist board faces the elevated scene cameras, so one collection pass serves both calibration modes.
  • The two boards use different ArUco dictionaries, so detections can never cross-match between the eye-in-hand and eye-to-hand targets.
  • The scene cameras are placed so the world board stays out of their view, and each camera's MJCF pose is paired with a REP 103 optical-frame site.

The config is MOVEIT_PRO_IGNOREd, so it does not appear in the configuration list; it launches fine when selected explicitly with moveit_pro run -c hand_eye_calibration_sim.

Verified by launching the full stack against this config (69 packages, planning ready, all three camera streams rendering in the Desktop App) and by offline MuJoCo renders of every camera at the calibration pose.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a complete UR5e simulation with a linear rail, gripper, fixed and wrist cameras, and ChArUco calibration boards.
    • Added predefined robot home positioning and gripper open/close behaviors.
    • Added a tool for generating ChArUco board textures.
    • Added runtime launch, simulation, calibration, and waypoint configuration.
    • Added package build and installation support for simulation assets and resources.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup, simulation, integration, contribution, and licensing documentation.

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The pull request adds a ROS 2 hand-eye calibration simulation package. It includes MuJoCo robot and scene assets, ChArUco texture generation, runtime configuration, launch integration, gripper behavior trees, waypoints, package metadata, licenses, and documentation.

Hand-Eye Calibration Simulation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package contracts and installation
src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/package.xml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/CMakeLists.txt, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/README.md, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/CONTRIBUTING.md, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/LICENSE, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/LICENSE
Defines package metadata, dependencies, installation rules, licensing terms, contribution guidance, and simulation documentation.
ChArUco board assets
src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/scripts/generate_charuco_boards.py
Defines world and flange board specifications. Generates borderless PNG textures with a command-line interface and write-error handling.
MuJoCo robot and calibration scene
src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/ur5e_linear_rail_hand_eye.xml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/ur5e_hand_eye.xml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/scene.xml
Adds the linear rail, UR5e model, Robotiq gripper, flange calibration board, fixed cameras, world calibration board, scene geometry, lighting, and default keyframe.
Runtime configuration and controls
src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/config/config.yaml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/launch/runtime.launch.xml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/objectives/*.xml, src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/waypoints/ur_waypoints.yaml
Wires the simulation assets and runtime launch. Adds open and close gripper behavior trees and a Home waypoint configuration.
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Human Review Check ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds one isolated, ignored ROS 2 simulation package. All 18 changed paths are under src/hand_eye_calibration_sim; no files change in bin/scripts, moveit_pro_behavior, or `moveit_pro…
Description check ✅ Passed The pull request description directly describes the added hand-eye calibration simulation, including the UR5e, calibration boards, camera setup, ground-truth transforms, launch behavior, and verificat…
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PASS. The PR adds one isolated, ignored ROS 2 simulation package. All 18 changed paths are under src/hand_eye_calibration_sim; no files change in bin/scripts, moveit_pro_behavior, or moveit_pro_behavior_interface. The launch file is a package-local launch/runtime.launch.xml, and the Python script generates ChArUco assets; neither is a launch script in bin/scripts. The PR adds no auth, secrets, encryption, CI/CD, deployment, hosting, public API, SDK, tutorial, or core behavior changes. The new objective XML files are package-local configuration and use the existing MoveGripperAction pattern.

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The pull request description directly describes the added hand-eye calibration simulation, including the UR5e, calibration boards, camera setup, ground-truth transforms, launch behavior, and verification results.

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src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/waypoints/ur_waypoints.yaml (1)

1-1: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider filling the empty description field.

The joint values reproduce the calibration keyframe in src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/scene.xml lines 164-169. State that purpose in description so operators know why this waypoint exists.

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-- description: ''
+- description: 'Calibration pose: wrist camera faces the world board, wrist plate faces the scene cameras.'
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In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/waypoints/ur_waypoints.yaml` at line 1, Fill the
empty description field in the waypoint configuration with a concise statement
that this joint pose reproduces the calibration keyframe defined in scene.xml,
so operators understand the waypoint’s purpose.
src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/ur5e_hand_eye.xml (1)

166-193: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The flange_board body adds no DOF and resolves its material from the including scene.

The body has no joint, so the keyframe qpos width in scene.xml stays valid. charuco_flange_material is defined in src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/scene.xml lines 45-49, so the textual include resolves. The half-extents 0.075 0.06 0.004 match the documented 0.150 x 0.120 m plate.

Note that any other scene that includes ur5e_hand_eye.xml must also define charuco_flange_material, or MuJoCo fails to compile the model. Consider stating that requirement in the header comment at lines 1-8.

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In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/ur5e_hand_eye.xml` around lines 166
- 193, Update the header comment in the UR5e hand-eye XML to state that any
including scene must define the charuco_flange_material material used by
flange_board.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 8-17: Update the CMake install configuration to derive the
picknik_accessories share directory using the ament package index or its
exported CMake path instead of constructing it from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Change
DEST_DIR to the relative destination share/${PROJECT_NAME}/description so
installation remains relocatable, while preserving the XML directory
installation behavior.

In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/LICENSE`:
- Around line 1-2: Add the repository-approved copyright notice at the top of
the LICENSE file, matching the format used by generate_charuco_boards.py, while
preserving the existing BSD-3-Clause license text.

In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/objectives/close_gripper.xml`:
- Around line 16-26: Remove the duplicate MetadataFields block under the SubTree
with ID “Close Gripper” in the XML, retaining one block that includes both
runnable="true" and subcategory="Grasping".

Apply the same fix in `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/objectives/open_gripper.xml`
around lines 17 - 23: The missing runnable metadata entry is covered explicitly.

In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/package.xml`:
- Line 23: Update the package.xml dependency declaration for picknik_accessories
from exec_depend to depend, or add build_depend while retaining exec_depend, so
CMakeLists.txt can resolve it during configuration and installation.
- Around line 18-31: Add python3-opencv as an exec_depend in the package
manifest for the generate_charuco_boards.py dependency, alongside the existing
runtime dependencies.

In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/README.md`:
- Around line 27-32: Update the hand-eye calibration documentation to explicitly
define the image-to-geom axis mapping and OpenCV board-origin corner for the
ChArUco texture, based on validation from a rendered image. Complete this
mapping validation before treating world_board or flange_board as calibration
ground truth, while preserving the existing designed plate poses.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/ur5e_hand_eye.xml`:
- Around line 166-193: Update the header comment in the UR5e hand-eye XML to
state that any including scene must define the charuco_flange_material material
used by flange_board.

In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/waypoints/ur_waypoints.yaml`:
- Line 1: Fill the empty description field in the waypoint configuration with a
concise statement that this joint pose reproduces the calibration keyframe
defined in scene.xml, so operators understand the waypoint’s purpose.
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  • src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/objectives/open_gripper.xml
  • src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/package.xml
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@src/hand_eye_calibration_sim/description/scene.xml`:
- Around line 170-187: Remove the default keyframe block from the scene and set
the required initial configuration through the relevant articulated body pos
attributes, preserving the calibration pose for the linear rail, UR5e, and
gripper.
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