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Any plan to make a unified URDF for Isaac Sim? #425

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@celestialdr4g0n

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First, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the OpenArm project — the effort put into it is genuinely appreciated.

Context

While the project currently ships USD assets which work well for basic simulation, several important Isaac Sim features depend on a URDF being available:

  • RMPFlow / Lula Motion Generation — these controllers require a URDF to compute motion plans and cannot rely solely on a damped least-squares IK solver.
  • Imitation learning workflows — many open-source IK solvers use URDF and the teleoperation rely heavily on these IK solvers.

Question / Request

Do the developers have plans to release an official URDF for OpenArm for Isaac Sim/ Isaac Lab? Or, if the USD was originally prepared by importing from a URDF, would it be possible to share that source URDF or document the conversion pipeline used?

Having a canonical, project-maintained URDF would prevent every user from having to reverse-engineer or recreate one independently, and would lower the barrier to using OpenArm in Isaac Sim/ Isaac Lab

Thanks again for the great work!

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