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Motivation

Give the lunar demo visible terrain landmarks and rover-mounted lidar data for perception experiments.

Brief description

Adds a world-fixed mast under the existing scene camera, four large boulders, and front/rear depth-camera lidars on the Husky A300. The README records sensor topics, mount offsets, asset provenance and measured motion results.

  • The scene camera retains its pose and framing. Its visible support has a 4.9 m post.
  • Lidar positions match Clearpath's vendored front enclosure mount and rear sensor-arch mount, with documented bracket offsets. Scan centers are at chassis coordinates (0.45, 0, 0.3208593) and (-0.2728, 0, 0.6500193) metres.
  • Both lidars use depth type 2, a 270-degree sweep, optical-frame sites and separate point-cloud topics. The configured 811 x 3 output currently has one usable horizontal row because upstream projection drops the outer rows. Effective minimum range is about 0.28 m due to rendering near clipping; maximum range is 25 m.
  • Boulders reuse the committed procedural rock meshes and Apollo ground material. Provenance is included; no runtime generation is added.

Labelled scene, mast, front/rear lidar mounts and route boulders

How it was tested

  • Inspected the main image's installed picknik_mujoco_ros 10.2.0 package and confirmed THREE_D_LIDAR = 2 support before configuring the lidars.
  • moveit_pro build user_workspace -w "$PWD" --colcon-args "--packages-up-to lunar_sim": 3 packages built successfully.
  • pytest src/lunar_sim/test/test_husky_mujoco_geometry.py: 4 passed. colcon test --packages-select lunar_sim lunar_sim_behaviors: all 7 CTest targets passed, with no errors or failures.
  • validate_and_render.py passed with GPU EGL rendering. Camera/site transforms match, and the square recorded zero boulder contacts. Physical before/after results match, including 0.6290 m closure error. This preserves the existing open-loop behavior; it does not claim accurate square tracking.
  • Launched the simulation and captured ros2 topic hz and ros2 topic echo --once for /scene_camera/color, /scene_camera/depth, /lidar_front/points and /lidar_rear/points. Also checked /scene_camera/camera_info and both optical-frame transforms. Measured about 5.6 Hz scene images, 7.2 Hz front lidar and 6.0 Hz rear lidar, against configured 10 Hz rates.
  • Verified finite cloud points from both scanners. Ran Dead Reckon Square successfully, recording 7.3695 m wheel-odometry travel and 6.3654 rad accumulated yaw. Teleoperation forwarded all 40 test commands, recorded 0.90475 m odometry displacement and ended with zero commanded twist.
  • After rebasing onto main with the moon base landmarks, re-ran validate_and_render.py on the combined scene: it passed with zero boulder contacts, the same 0.6290 m closure error and per-corner turns, and matching camera/site transforms. The only rebase conflict was the two scene include lines; both sides were kept.
  • Final wording corrections passed pre-commit run --files for the README, provenance note and validation script. Automated PR checks passed before squashing and are rerunning on the final commit.

Release notes

  • Enhancement: Added a visible scene-camera mast, four route boulders and front/rear image-based lidars to lunar_sim.

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Reviewed commit 2e1842d0cc037bd11d019b28b9bc0e6791f254ea using the MoveIt Pro review prompts.

  • code-reviewer
    • No required changes. Clarified the axial-depth smoke check.
  • documentation-bot
    • Corrected the provenance reference. No outstanding findings.
  • licensing-privacy-bot
    • No new licensing obligations or privacy-policy impact.
  • SKIPPED platform-architect-bot
    • Package-local scene and sensor configuration; no platform implementation changes.
  • roboticist-bot
    • Mount transforms, scan configuration and recorded motion results reviewed. No required changes.
  • SKIPPED frontend-noah-bot
    • No frontend changes.
  • SKIPPED security-auditor
    • No security-sensitive interfaces or deployment changes.
  • SKIPPED compatibility-bot
    • Additive sensors; existing topics and objectives retain their interfaces.
  • SKIPPED sonar-bot
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  • SKIPPED test-runner
    • Build, package tests, rendering and live motion checks were completed during implementation and pipeline validation; no separate final test-runner agent was invoked.

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  • New Features

    • Added visible front and rear lidar sensors with point-cloud data published at 10 Hz.
    • Added a physical mast and housing for the overview camera.
    • Added four directional boulders around the lunar demonstration circuit.
    • Added sensor inspection outputs for camera views, lidar scans, mounting, and optical frames.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Route validation now detects and reports contact with boulders during simulation.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded simulation documentation with sensor details, route obstacles, validation checks, demonstration results, and boulder asset provenance.

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The lunar simulation adds front and rear image-based lidars, a visible camera mast, four route boulders, lidar topics, collision validation, sensor checks, and inspection documentation.

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Lunar simulation sensors and obstacles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Boulder assets and scene integration
src/lunar_sim/description/assets/boulders_provenance.txt, src/lunar_sim/description/boulders_assets.xml, src/lunar_sim/description/boulders_geoms.xml, src/lunar_sim/description/husky_scene.xml, src/lunar_sim/README.md
Four sourced boulder meshes and collision geoms are added around the circuit. The scene includes the boulder assets and a visible camera mast. The README documents the boulders and scene configuration.
Sensor hardware and publication
src/lunar_sim/description/husky_a300.xml, src/lunar_sim/description/husky_a300_mujoco.xacro, src/lunar_sim/description/husky_scene.xml, src/lunar_sim/README.md
Front and rear lidar mounts include fixed cameras, optical-frame sites, brackets, and housings. MuJoCo publishes point clouds at 10 Hz on the front and rear lidar topics. The README documents sensor placement and behavior.
Route and sensor validation
src/lunar_sim/description/validate_and_render.py
Route validation rejects contacts with boulder_* geoms during settling and motion. sensor_sheet checks camera and lidar geometry, scan returns, and beam density, then generates a labelled inspection image. Calibration reports zero boulder contacts after successful validation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2e184

The simulation adds the documented sensors, boulders, and validation artifacts without an established merge-blocking risk.

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Human Review Check ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative diff changes only 9 files under src/lunar_sim. The changes add MuJoCo scene assets, lidar configuration, validation logic, provenance documentation, and package README conten…
Description check ✅ Passed The pull request description directly matches the changeset. It explains the camera mast, route boulders, front and rear lidars, sensor topics, asset provenance, validation, and test results.
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@griswaldbrooks griswaldbrooks changed the title chore: update pull request feat(lunar_sim): add scene mast, boulders, and A300 lidars Sep 14, 2026

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In `@src/lunar_sim/description/validate_and_render.py`:
- Around line 147-153: Update dead_reckon_square’s boulder identification to
require all four expected boulder geoms via require_id, or assert the discovered
names exactly match the expected set, before step_clear_route validation; do not
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