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`Pick the Red Block` reads the cube's pose from the simulation's TF and picks it up; `Collect the Red Block Pick` wraps that in Trainer's recording Behaviors, keeping the episode only if the pick succeeds and converting the dataset to LeRobot v3.0. Together they give the VLA guides a scripted task to document, which `vla_sim` did not previously have. Conversion labels `action` from a `sensor_msgs/JointState` command topic and nothing outside of teleoperation publishes one, so a scripted collection converts only with next-state labels. `joint_command_bridge.py` republishes the trajectory controller's setpoint and the latched gripper command as `/joint_commands`; the gripper Objectives latch their command through a parameter, since a `GripperCommand` goal is not observable on any topic. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
…s way Review of the scripted pick found three ways it could mislead. `SetRos2Parameter` was the first node of the gripper Objectives, so a stack running without the bridge failed them before `MoveGripperAction` ran. Teleop drives the gripper through those same Objectives, so a recording side-channel could stop the robot; it is now wrapped and its timeouts are sized for a local node. Nothing checked that the cube came with the gripper. Every Behavior in the pick succeeds whether the jaws close on the cube or beside it, so a missed grasp was saved as a demonstration. The Objective now measures the cube's displacement against its pre-grasp pose. The bridge published a state echo whenever no trajectory was running, which would have handed a hand-teleoperated recording an `action` column copied from its own observations - the mislabelling that an empty action topic exists to refuse. It now stays silent until the trajectory controller has run. Also raises the publish rate clear of the converter's 50 ms sync tolerance, drops a channel-order warning that fired on a harmless reorder, and makes the bridge's own log visible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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WalkthroughThe change adds a ROS 2 joint command bridge, launch wiring, gripper and pick behavior trees, a red-block demonstration workflow, package integration, tests, and training-data documentation. ChangesVLA simulation workflow
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Joints 1, 3, 5 and 7 of a Gen3 are continuous. With lab_sim's candidate set of four, every solution for the yawed grasp landed a full turn away on joint_3 and the controller rejected the trajectory for starting 2*pi from where the arm actually was. Also records that `quest_oculus` publishes the same topic for Cartesian teleoperation, and that it stays silent until a headset is enabled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
… way `Pick the Red Block` now runs the same node sequence as lab_sim's `Pick object`, with the TF read standing in for its `CreatePoseStamped`. The lift confirmation is gone: #830's oracle did not have one either, and the Objective exists to show how the recording Behaviors are wired, so the extra branch obscured the lesson more than it earned. Playback is where the guide has the reader judge a demonstration, and the README and the wrapper's comment now say so rather than claiming the tree can tell a grasp from a jaw that closed beside the cube. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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…weight The node names already carry the intent, so the header drops to the one thing that differs from lab_sim's wrapper - where the scene reset sits - and the remaining comments match that file's phrasing. Also drops a leftover claim that the Objective keeps an episode only if the pick succeeded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
The Objective comments and the README carried their own history: which file a subtree came from, which value was raised and from what, what went wrong before a dwell was added. None of that is usable by someone running the Objectives, so what remains is the part that is: where `cube_red_tf` comes from, that a Gen3's continuous joints constrain `max_ik_solutions`, that `approach_distance` follows the tool axis, and that nothing resets the scene. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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In `@src/vla_sim/objectives/open_gripper.xml`:
- Line 16: The ForceSuccess decorator in src/vla_sim/objectives/open_gripper.xml
at lines 16-16 must require a successful open-value SetRos2Parameter when
recording is active; update src/vla_sim/objectives/close_gripper.xml at lines
16-16 likewise for the close-value update. Preserve the existing non-recording
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cannot proceed to the physical gripper command.
In `@src/vla_sim/script/joint_command_bridge.py`:
- Around line 165-171: Gate the joint command bridge lifecycle on recording
state rather than _reference: enable it when RecordEpisode starts, and disable
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The bridge published measured positions whenever the trajectory controller went quiet between goals, which labels an action with the arm's own observation. It now holds the latest setpoint until the controller reports a new one, so a dwell carries the pose the Objective commanded and is still holding, and /joint_states is no longer read at all. The gripper Objectives no longer mask a failed SetRos2Parameter. A masked failure left the bridge latching the previous jaw command while the gripper moved, putting a wrong value in the recorded action rather than ending the episode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EqwaXAZDMXejHz14M5A3uo
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**Collect the Red Block Pick** moves to the **Application - Data Recording** subcategory. A recording wrapper is a collection tool rather than a demonstration of the robot's capability, so it groups with other collection Objectives instead of beside **Pick the Red Block**, the task it records. The README keeps what the configuration is and drops how to use it: the recording and conversion walkthrough lives in the Behaviors collection guide. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EqwaXAZDMXejHz14M5A3uo
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| `Pick the Red Block` reads the cube's pose from the simulation, then approaches, | ||
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| Trainer's recording Behaviors and converts the dataset to LeRobot v3.0. Nothing | ||
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Check attachment before saving the episode.
Collect the Red Block Pick calls SaveEpisode immediately after Pick the Red Block. The bound Close Gripper subtree only updates the bridge and sends a gripper position command; it does not check attachment. Pick from Pose also documents that timing can cause an air grasp. Add an attachment check before SaveEpisode so failed grasps are discarded instead of saved as demonstrations.
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In `@src/vla_sim/README.md` at line 14, Update the Collect the Red Block Pick
workflow to verify gripper attachment after Pick the Red Block and before
SaveEpisode. Discard failed grasps instead of saving them, while preserving the
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`example_ws` READMEs describe the configuration rather than how to use it. The recording and conversion walkthrough lives in the Behaviors collection guide, which covers the same ground in full. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EqwaXAZDMXejHz14M5A3uo
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Motivation
vla_simhas no scripted task for the VLA guides to document, which is what blocks #20907 and #21451. #830 was the first attempt and was closed as too large and specific; this is the generalized version, 740 lines against 4303.What's here
Pick the Red Blockrunslab_sim'sPick objectsequence, with a TF read ofcube_red_tfin place of itsCreatePoseStamped.Collect the Red Block Pickis the recording wrapperlab_simalready documents, with the scene reset ahead ofRecordEpisodeso the controller switch and teleport land outside the window.joint_command_bridge.pypublishes/joint_commandsfrom the trajectory controller's reference setpoint and the latched gripper command. Conversion labelsactionfrom a command topic and refuses an episode whose one is empty, so without this node a scripted Objective converts only withaction_sourceset tonext_state, which labels each frame with the next frame's measured position instead of with what the Objective commanded.The trajectory controller reports a setpoint only while a goal executes, so the bridge holds the last one between goals: a dwell is labelled with the pose the Objective commanded and is still holding. Measured positions are never a fallback — an action labelled with the arm's own observation teaches the policy to command where it already is. Before the first trajectory there is nothing to hold, and the bridge publishes nothing.
The gripper channel comes from a
gripper_command_positionparameter that Open Gripper and Close Gripper set throughSetRos2Parameter: aGripperCommandgoal is not observable on any topic. A failed update fails the Objective rather than labelling the episode with the previous jaw command.Where
Pick from Posedeviates from lab_sim'send_effector_groupis this configuration's SRDF group name.Close Gripper.ExecuteMTCSolutionreturns on trajectory time while the admittance controller is still ~7 cm behind, so without them the gripper closes on air.max_ik_solutions4 → 16. Joints 1, 3, 5 and 7 of a Gen3 are continuous, and four candidates all landed a full turn away onjoint_3, which the controller rejected for starting 2π from the arm's actual position.Verification
Collection runs on a
vla_simstack each recorded and converted one episode: 62 frames at 10 Hz,robot_type: gen3, task labelPick up the red block., and the cube lifted from z 0.095 m to 0.214 m inbase_link.ConvertDatasetran withaction_sourceleft empty, so the labels are command labels —meta/conversion_outcomes.jsonreportsrelabelled: false. They carry real commanded motion: no frame hasactionequal toobservation.state, mean |action − state| across the arm is 0.037 rad against a 0.42 rad peak, and the gripper channel is exactly {0.0, 0.7}. The 62 frames hold 25 distinct action rows, which is the latch doing its job: a dwell repeats the setpoint the Objective commanded instead of tracking measured drift.test_joint_command_bridge.pycovers the assembly directly, including that the last setpoint is held between goals and that the gripper never takes the controller's reference.Known gap
observation.stateis 15 wide against an 8-wideaction. This is the existing asymmetry, not a new one — nothing in the tree publishes a narrowed observation topic. SinceExecutePolicynarrows to 8 at inference, training on this data wants a narrowed observation topic; #830 published one, and it is left out here as scope.Relates to #20907 and #21451. The documentation PR is PickNikRobotics/moveit_pro#22342.
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