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jhu-dvrk / sawIntuitiveResearchKit

cisst/SAW stack for the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK)
https://github.com/jhu-dvrk/sawIntuitiveResearchKit/wiki
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Expose arm serial number #51

Closed adeguet1 closed 8 years ago

adeguet1 commented 8 years ago

The arm serial number is pulled from the .cal file and saved in the sawRobotIO XML configuration file. Once a dVRK application is started, it is hard to know which configuration file has been loaded and this can lead to user errors, specially when calibrating the system. For a quick visual check, it would be great to expose the serial number in the GUI, maybe in both IO widget and arm widget.

For ROS applications, it would be nice to push this information using the node params.

adeguet1 commented 8 years ago

sawRobotIO1394 has been modified to display the serial number in GUI. For the pots calibration, we read the SN from the XML file and ask user to confirm that numbers match.