Using IterativeSplineParameterization with computeCartesianPath

edit

Edit:

Your comment completely changes your question (please include all relevant information in your first post in the future), so here is an answer to the new question.

I’m specifically looking to use the iterative spline parametrization for Cartesian planning. Would updating this config file change the algorithm used by both freespace and cartesian plans ?

No, it doesn't, as the default implementation of computeCartesianPath(..) hard-codes the use of the IterativeParabolicTimeParameterization right now (here).

I would change the object instantiated here https://github.com/ros-planning/movei...

yes, you would have to do that.

You could potentially avoid building all of MoveIt from source by extracting the move_group package from the source tree, adapting the adapter and then building that.

Even better: create a copy of the adapter, place it in its own package and just build that.

Best: make this configurable (using a parameter), test it and submit a PR against ros-planning/moveit and get it merged.

There should be no need to build MoveIt from source (I'm also not entirely sure what you'd be changing specifically in that case).

The time parameterisation is done in a MoveIt Planning Request Adapter.

There are three of those, corresponding to the three algorithms currently available:

• AddTimeParameterization (which applies the Iterative Parabolic Time Parameterization)
• AddIterativeSplineParameterization (the spline based approach: Iterative Spline Parameterization)
• AddTimeOptimalParameterization (using the Time-optimal Trajectory Generation library by Tobias Kunz)

So changing the algorithm used is a matter of changing the configuration of the planning request adapters.

For MoveIt configurations generated by the MoveIt Setup Assistant, that can be done by editing the ompl_planning_pipeline.launch.xml file.

Specifically, change this line and replace AddTimeParameterization with AddIterativeSplineParameterization.

Refer to the Time Parameterization page in the MoveIt documentation for some more info on this.

And refer to the planning_request_adapters_plugin_description.xml file for a list of available time parameterisation planning request adapters.