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As far as I know, these are not standard terms - this particular rviz plugin made them up.

So, from looking at the values, I think that Position and Orientation are the pose of ee_link relative to the Fixed Frame, and Relative Position and Relative Orientation are the pose of ee_link relative to the ee_link parent, wrist_3_link.

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