What is the /move_group/sense_for_plan/max_look_attempts param?

System: Ubuntu 16.04 / ROS Kinetic / Nuvo-5095GC-022 / Universal Robots UR10 Packages: freenectstack, geometry2, libfreenect, perceptionpcl, tracik, universalrobot, urmoderndriver, rqt

I've been looking at rqt in more depth and today stumbled across the dynamic reconfigure functionality. Under the movegroup tab, it's possible to dynamically change a parameter called maxlook_attempts that i haven't seen before. The gui looks like the below:

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What is the function of maxlookattempts? Changing the value whilst running a node to move the robot doesn't result in any obvious difference that i can see, despite me having an octomap running and the robot traversing obstacles every now and again. Is it a kind of pseudo-continuous collision checking?

Asked by nisur on 2019-02-26 15:54:42 UTC

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From the tooltip in the dynamic_reconfigure file (sic):

Set the maximum number of times a sensor can be pointed to parts of the environment doring a motion plan

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2019-02-26 16:05:11 UTC