How to know the endpoint coordinates of a robot ?

[ISIR-GuillaumeS]

Hi guys !

I am currently working with the Trunk example of the SoftRobots plugin. In my application I need to know the coordinates of the endpoint of the trunk below

In your opinion what would be the best way to do this ? I was thinking to attach an object with no mass to it and obtain its position but I think there is an easier way to do this.

Thanks !

[hugtalbot]

Hi @ISIR-GuillaumeS

Let's say that the index of the trunk tip in the volumetric mesh that you use is tipIndex and that you create your MechanicalObject as follows:

myMO = objectNode.addObject("MechanicalObject", template="Vec3d", name="MO")

What you can do to access in read access the position of the tip is :

myMO.position.value[tipIndex]

I hope this helps

[ISIR-GuillaumeS]

Hi Hugo,

That is exactly what I wanted !

Thanks a lot !