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URDF to Collada: joint coordinate system not observed?
From ros/robot_model#169
I have a problem similar to this http://answers.ros.org/question/221675/unable-to-move-links-within-urdf-file/ , it is only that I convert from URDF to Collada.
Original URDF as seen in RViz:
After converting to Collada as seen in Openrave:
If I judge solely by eyesight, it seems to me that in the converted Collada file the visual elements are rendered not w.r.t. (local) joint coordinate systems.
I am using Indigo:
$ dpkg -l | grep indigo-collada
ii ros-indigo-collada-parser 1.11.11-0trusty-20160627-175110-0700 amd64 This package contains a C++ parser for the Collada robot description format.
ii ros-indigo-collada-urdf 1.11.11-0trusty-20161111-194651-0800 amd64 This package contains a tool to convert Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) documents into COLLAborative Design Activity (COLLADA) documents.
Is this a known problem, maybe, already solved in Kinectic?
Thanks.