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Model-based design and verification for robotics.
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[multibody] Clarify some docs, and other cleanups #21660

Open jwnimmer-tri opened 2 days ago

jwnimmer-tri commented 2 days ago

This was carved out of a larger, abandoned PR (#21644). It's somewhat of a hodge-podge:

The purpose of the first two changes is that me as a developer working on MbP could not easily reason through the code. By better documenting our assumptions in API contracts, it lets us more quickly understand what each piece of MbP/MbT/MbTS is doing.


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