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Significance of adding end effectors in MoveIt! Setup Assistant

Naive question perhaps but what exactly does this provide? Somewhere on the wiki/tutorials the claim is made that by adding end effectors you enable additional end-effector-specific (internal) functionality (Steps 4 and 6 here).

In the past I have not included the end effectors when using the MoveIt! Setup Assistant and have yet to have any issue with limited functionality (that I know of...). That said, I guess my question is: what does adding an end effector in MoveIt provide and/or what cool stuff am I missing?

[edit] link to appropriate documentation

Asked by BrettHemes on 2018-05-24 08:03:43 UTC

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May I piggyback on this question by linking to my own, related query?

Asked by raequin on 2018-05-24 08:14:56 UTC

Not an answer, but note: you're linking to the Hydro version of the documentation.

The Kinetic version has recently undergone major changes, so perhaps your question is already answered there.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-05-24 10:35:53 UTC

Ahhhh, I do this all the time... sorry. Google favors the older tutorials/api docs and I forget to check the urls.

Asked by BrettHemes on 2018-05-24 10:39:11 UTC

still doesn't address the question though :/

Asked by BrettHemes on 2018-05-24 10:40:30 UTC

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