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Baxter Research Robot SDK
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Standardize Limb Naming #92

Closed rethink-kmaroney closed 11 years ago

rethink-kmaroney commented 11 years ago

The upcoming elimination of the redundant /robot/limb/<left/right>/joint_states will break our current api, specifically our limb baxter_interface. The sooner we transition to supporting the usage of the standard naming (from the URDF, ie. 'left_s0, right_w1') the least amount of customers will feel the fallout of these changes.

This pull request reflects our transition to the standard /robot/joint_states in all of sdk-examples.

The implications of these changes are the following: