Adds latest pneumatic/electric gripper STLs and DAEs

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ROS Messages and robot description files for the Baxter Research Robot

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Adds latest pneumatic/electric gripper STLs and DAEs #35

Closed rethink-kmaroney closed 10 years ago

rethink-kmaroney commented 10 years ago

Adds new pneumatic gripper meshes. Adds electric gripper meshes with fingers.

rethink-rlinsalata commented 10 years ago

We should leave the old meshes in there (perhaps under deprecated names for a release cycle). Since people will be defining their own grippers anyways. I do agree though that whatever the "default" gripper is should be the new block form.
Technically, shouldn't it be a 'suction' gripper (to match the 'type')? Maybe the name change is an opportunity to distinguish between the new block and old stem grippers?

rethink-rlinsalata commented 10 years ago

Interesting to have the electric mesh with fingers, but it's just to make things look shiny, right?

rethink-rlinsalata commented 10 years ago

match naming convention on suction gripper _base with electric_gripper_base

rethink-kmaroney commented 10 years ago

They were previously packaged as pneumatic_grippers.. Renaming would be tough to archive against properly. Majority of the grippers meshes are renames, should these also be archived or are we good with the renames? This is reflected in the URDF. Electric meshes with fingers are for looks, to be shiny. I'll rename pneumatic_gripper to pneumatic_gripper_base.

rethink-rlinsalata commented 10 years ago

I see what you're saying; that makes sense. I think we should still keep a copy of the old suction cup grippers in the folder for now (under a different name - not to be used anywhere) as half of the customers who have suction would have the old grippers. That make sense? They don't have to even be linked in history. Just something with "old_pneumatic_grippers" in case those customers want to put them on their visualization.