Units for Command functions (position, velocity, effort)

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abdulaleey
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Units for Command functions (position, velocity, effort)

Post by abdulaleey » Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:52 am

The HEBI documentation shows "rad" or "m" as units for position command and "rad/s" or "m/s" for velocity command. The units "m" and "m/s" are confusing me as X series actuators are limited to angular position and angular velocity.
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florian_enner
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Re: Units for Command functions (position, velocity, effort)

Post by florian_enner » Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:00 am

The APIs also support linear stages, so we decided to make the units agnostic. However, you are not the first one to be confused by this, and we are actively thinking about changing the units to rad, rad/s, Nm, and potentially changing "effort" to "torque".
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