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Turns `use_fuse` on by default and gives navigation an estimated base pose, while
the arm planner and the 66 hangar collision meshes keep reading MuJoCo truth.
Today `world -> ridgeback_base_link` comes from three virtual rail joints driven by
MuJoCo truth and `odom -> world` is a static identity, so every pose lookup returns
the exact simulated pose. `ridgeback_base_link` can only have one TF parent, so the
two consumers are reconciled by publishing the live difference between the estimate
and the truth as `odom -> world`: then `odom -> base` resolves to fuse's estimate and
`world -> base` stays truth, out of one transform tree.
The one piece of new C++ is that publisher, `src/odom_world_drift.cpp` (~136 lines
after the licence header). Every cycle it reads /odom_filtered, reads MuJoCo's /odom,
and publishes the difference; the only other logic is a staleness guard that withholds
the transform when fuse stops, so lookups fail loudly instead of silently localizing
against a frozen estimate. There is deliberately no synthetic drift or noise term --
MuJoCo models contact and the frame drifts on its own physics.
Why it cannot be configuration, which is the answer to the size objection that killed
moveit_pro_example_ws#790:
- fuse's Odometry3DPublisher can publish `odom -> base` or `map -> odom`, never
`odom -> world`; publishing `odom -> base` gives ridgeback_base_link a second parent.
- Nothing in stock ROS, nav2, fuse or moveit_pro composes two live transforms into a
third. moveit_pro's TF behaviors are all one-shot.
- The workspace's own script/odometry_joint_state_publisher.py would do it with no
C++ at all, by driving the three rail joints from /odom_filtered -- but that puts
estimate error into whole-body planning and the hangar collision model while
joint_trajectory_controller still closes its loop on true state interfaces.
Rejected deliberately.
separate logic header or index resolver, because the ground-truth pose is already
published as an Odometry message and does not need to be dug out of /joint_states.
Configuration:
- use_fuse defaults to true.
- bt_navigator.odom_topic /odom -> /odom_filtered, and the same key added to the
controller_server block, which fell through to nav2's default and is what MPPI
seeds from. (velocity_smoother.odom_topic is inert; that block runs OPEN_LOOP.)
- fuse.yaml drops 'yaw' from the wheel sensor's orientation and angular-velocity
dimensions so the exact simulated IMU owns yaw outright. The keys are omitted
rather than set to [], because rclcpp cannot type an empty YAML list and the node
aborts on one.
- fuse.yaml throttles both sensors to 50 Hz. The controllers publish at the
controller-manager rate (~390 Hz odometry, ~410 Hz IMU) rather than the
publish_rate: 50.0 they are configured for; unthrottled, the optimizer takes
~200 stamps per 0.5 s lag window, falls behind by a growing margin (measured:
20 ms of overrun reaching 207 s), and odom_filtered freezes while still
publishing, so navigation steers on a pose that never changes.
- The slam x use_fuse x localization ownership matrix is documented on the launch
file's warning helper, which logs loudly on the one unsupported corner --
use_fuse:=true with localization:=false and slam:=false, where the estimate drives
odom -> base with nothing publishing a correction for it. #790 warned on a
different corner because its amcl_odom_gate was the sole map -> odom publisher;
there is no gate here and amcl.tf_broadcast stays true, so beluga always publishes
its own correction.
No AMCL or MPPI tuning parameter is touched, and the two mecanum controller instances
are left alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012paJUv8my5iEX5mQfKuVrq
…his task established Promotes CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md (with a CLAUDE.md symlink) per the workspace convention, and adds the five things that were non-obvious and cost real time while turning fuse on: the controllers ignoring publish_rate, empty YAML lists aborting rclcpp nodes, the real-time factor inflating wheel odometry in proportion to host load, the topic-based UI prompt protocol needed to drive the navigation Objectives headlessly, and Reset MuJoCo Sim not resetting the estimators. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012paJUv8my5iEX5mQfKuVrq
…s a red herring A rebase-and-remeasure of the fuse navigation branch spent a full base-image pull chasing a confound that does not exist: Dockerfile:12 defaults to the rolling picknikciuser/moveit-pro:main-jazzy, but moveit_pro build overrides MOVEIT_DOCKER_TAG with the installed CLI's own version and resolves an immutable release tag instead. Record which tag actually applies, how to read the resolved digest back out of the build log, and the real risk the pin creates -- a CLI upgrade silently moving the simulator and the fuse/beluga/nav2 debs underneath a measurement.
…y drives The comment claimed odom_topic is what MPPI seeds each rollout from. With FollowPath.open_loop true -- which PR 962 left untouched when it disabled the drive acceleration limits -- MPPI seeds from its own last command and ignores odom entirely; odom_topic feeds the progress checker and the plugins' velocity feedback. The parameter is still required, so the change it documents stands; only the seeding clause was wrong. Record the coupling it hides: flipping open_loop to false would make MPPI seed from this topic, and on this branch that is fuse's estimate rather than MuJoCo ground truth.
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 271-272: Update the AGENTS.md guidance for the moveit_pro-resolved
Docker image to describe the result as a version-specific tag, not immutable.
Require resolving and using the image’s sha256 digest for reproducible builds,
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In `@src/hangar_sim/launch/sim/robot_drivers_to_persist_sim.launch.py`:
- Around line 253-258: Complete the use_fuse fallback by making Nav2 consume
ground-truth /odom when Fuse is disabled. Update the bt_navigator and
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fuse.yaml and nav2_params.yaml carried paragraph-length justifications beside single values, and the launch file the same. Each is now one line stating what the setting does and why it is not the obvious value; the measurements behind them live in the PR.
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Same facts, about half the lines. The file header was a nineteen-line essay for a node whose whole job is one subtraction; the inline comments each said in four lines what they now say in one.
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…e is off nav2_params hardcoded odom_topic: /odom_filtered, but only fuse publishes that topic and fuse is gated on use_fuse. With use_fuse:=false -- the fallback the launch file's own warning recommends -- bt_navigator and controller_server subscribed to a topic with no publisher. Rewrite odom_topic at launch from use_fuse, through the RewrittenYaml substitutions already in place, so nav2 reads MuJoCo's /odom when fuse is not running. Also corrects AGENTS.md: a CLI-resolved tag is version-specific, not immutable -- pin the sha256 digest for reproducibility -- and the build-log grep now matches the 'load metadata for' form as well as 'FROM'.
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…reated The odom_topic rewrite added in f0dca66 never reached bt_navigator or controller_server. It was applied to the parent launch file's configured_params, but those two nodes are created by the navigation_launch.py include, which builds its own RewrittenYaml from the raw params file. Verified on a running stack: with use_fuse:=false both nodes still reported /odom_filtered, and that topic had "Publisher count: 0, Subscription count: 2" -- the exact defect the rewrite was meant to cure. Resolve odom_topic from use_fuse inside navigation_launch.py instead, and declare use_fuse there so the file does not depend on a LaunchConfiguration it was never passed. The parent now forwards use_fuse to that include. Remove the parent's odom_topic rewrite rather than leave it in place: its configured_params reaches only the two component_container_isolated nodes, which do not consume odom_topic, so it governed nothing. A rewrite that silently does nothing is what made the original bug hard to see. Re-verified live in both directions. use_fuse:=true -> both nodes on /odom_filtered, publisher count 1 (state_estimator). use_fuse:=false -> both on /odom, publisher count 1 (mujoco_system), and /odom_filtered no longer exists. Both arms drive the acceptance route to SUCCEEDED. velocity_smoother also matches the odom_topic key and is rewritten, but its feedback is OPEN_LOOP and it does not subscribe to odom on either arm.
…e's nodes hangar_sim builds nav2's parameters through RewrittenYaml twice, and a rewrite added to the parent for a node the navigation_launch.py include creates does nothing at all - silently, with no warning. Record the trap, and the topic-info publisher-count check that is the only thing that catches it.
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🟠 Major · Declare the Fuse runtime packages. · package.xml:16-46
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDeclare the Fuse runtime packages.
use_fusedefaults totrue, so the launch file startsfuse_optimizers/fixed_lag_smoother_node. The installedfuse.yamlalso loads plugins fromfuse_modelsandfuse_loss. Becausehangar_sim/package.xmldeclares none of these packages, a clean package-based install can omit them and the default launch can fail during executable or plugin resolution. Add runtime dependencies for all three packages; no build dependency is needed becausehangar_simdoes not compile against them.<exec_depend>fuse_optimizers</exec_depend> <exec_depend>fuse_models</exec_depend> <exec_depend>fuse_loss</exec_depend>The PR introduced this requirement by changing the default to
use_fuse:=trueand adding the Fuse launch and plugin configuration.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Route odom_world_drift through Nav2’s… · robot_drivers_to_persist_sim.launch.py:390-412
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odom_world_driftthrough Nav2’s namespaced TF remapping.
OdomWorldDriftconstructstf2_ros::TransformBroadcasterand publishes the dynamicodom -> worldtransform. Nav2 remaps/tftotfunderPushRosNamespace, so namespaced Nav2 uses/<namespace>/tf.odom_world_driftruns outside that group with no remapping, so its transform remains on global/tf.When
use_fuse:=true,static_tf_odom_to_worldis disabled. Namespaced Nav2 therefore cannot receive its required dynamic transform. The supporteduse_namespace,namespace, anduse_fuselaunch arguments make this path reachable.Ensure the node’s
/tfpublisher resolves to/<namespace>/tf. Place it under the namespaced group with the same("/tf", "tf")remapping, or explicitly remap/tfto/<namespace>/tf. Moving the node without correcting the broadcaster’s absolute/tftopic is insufficient.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/hangar_sim/launch/sim/robot_drivers_to_persist_sim.launch.py`:
- Around line 390-412: Update the odom_world_drift Node configuration so its
TransformBroadcaster publishes on the active Nav2 namespace’s tf topic when
use_fuse is enabled. Place it in the existing namespaced group with the same
("/tf", "tf") remapping, or apply an equivalent explicit remap; ensure the
broadcaster’s absolute /tf resolves to /<namespace>/tf without changing the
static_tf_odom_to_world behavior.
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- Around line 16-46: Add runtime dependencies for fuse_optimizers, fuse_models,
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Queued behind #963. Not ready to merge — see Before this lands.
Why
hangar_simnavigates on MuJoCo ground truth. Nothing exercises the localization stack, so theconfiguration cannot answer the question it exists to answer: does navigation work when the base
pose is estimated rather than known.
What changed
use_fusedefaults totrue— the estimator actually runs.odom_world_drift(new, ~174 lines) publishesodom -> worldfrom fuse's estimate, soodom -> ridgeback_base_linkresolves to the estimate whileworld— and the environmentwelded to it — stays put. beluga_amcl corrects
map -> odomon top.odom_topic/odom→/odom_filteredin bothbt_navigatorandcontroller_server, so the behavior tree's velocity checks and thecontroller agree on where the robot is.
A launch-time warning covers the one unsupported flag combination:
use_fuse:=truewithlocalization:=falseleaves the estimate's drift uncorrected and the pose free-runs.Measured
Both navigation Objectives SUCCEED on the estimate. On the acceptance route, the robot's pose
slides against the map by under 0.09 m over the whole route, with zero corrections over 0.10 m.
Separately, with this branch plus #963: 34 clean attempts at a goal 0.30 m off the fuselage
skin, zero divergences, worst error at the robot 0.448 m against a 0.50 m threshold fixed before
the run. A true divergence rate of 10% is rejected at ~97% confidence.
Note on reading correction figures:
map -> odomtranslation is measured at the odom origin, upto 27 m from the robot here, so a sub-half-degree yaw correction reads as a 0.15 m step while
displacing the robot ~2 cm. Judge it at the robot.
Before this lands
for the tree they were taken on; they have not been re-run against current
main. One clean runbefore merge, not after.
main-based branches for an unrelated reason(
PlanToJointGoalrejecting the start pose as self-colliding, from thelink_padding→collision_check_paramsmigration), so a red run here is not evidence about this change.c3fc1217; one conflict resolved in the launch file by keeping both new helpers.