Getting Kinbody COM

[Alex]

I am trying to get the center of mass of a Kinbody that I have added to the environment, but I receive the following error:

"'KinBody' object has no attribute 'GetCenterOfMass'"

My code is:

object = env.ReadKinBodyURI(objectfile)
env.Add(object, True)
COM = object.GetCenterOfMass()

From 'kinbody.cpp', line 1125, I found the function definition

Vector KinBody::GetCenterOfMass() const
{
    // find center of mass and set the outer transform to it
    Vector center;
    dReal fTotalMass = 0;

    FOREACHC(itlink, _veclinks) {
        center += ((*itlink)->GetTransform() * (*itlink)->GetCOMOffset() * (*itlink)->GetMass());
        fTotalMass += (*itlink)->GetMass();
    }

    if( fTotalMass > 0 ) {
        center /= fTotalMass;
    }
    return center;
}

It appears that the function is there, but it does not seem to be working.  Am I calling it wrong?  Is the object of a different KinBody class?  Is there another or better way to get the COM?  I don't want to use 'object.GetTransform()' because that returns the objects origin, which may not always be the COM depending on how the object file was created.  I also tried 'object.ComputeAABB()', but I don't know how to extract the data from the AABB object.  I keep getting errors like "'AABB' object has no attribute '__getitem__'"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks!

[Rosen Diankov]

alex,

yup, you are right. it wasn't added to the python bindings. we just added it in this commit on the master branch:

https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave/commit/00ceea3c33c68c7fc8b9b9abee7c11da79d37e10

best,

rosen,

2014-03-09 6:23 GMT+09:00 Alex <[hidden email]>:

I am trying to get the center of mass of a Kinbody that I have added to the
environment, but I receive the following error:

"'KinBody' object has no attribute 'GetCenterOfMass'"

My code is:

object = env.ReadKinBodyURI(objectfile)
env.Add(object, True)
COM = object.GetCenterOfMass()

>From 'kinbody.cpp', line 1125, I found the function definition

Vector KinBody::GetCenterOfMass() const
{
    // find center of mass and set the outer transform to it
    Vector center;
    dReal fTotalMass = 0;

    FOREACHC(itlink, _veclinks) {
        center += ((*itlink)->GetTransform() * (*itlink)->GetCOMOffset() *
(*itlink)->GetMass());
        fTotalMass += (*itlink)->GetMass();
    }

    if( fTotalMass > 0 ) {
        center /= fTotalMass;
    }
    return center;
}

It appears that the function is there, but it does not seem to be working.
Am I calling it wrong?  Is the object of a different KinBody class?  Is
there another or better way to get the COM?  I don't want to use
'object.GetTransform()' because that returns the objects origin, which may
not always be the COM depending on how the object file was created.  I also
tried 'object.ComputeAABB()', but I don't know how to extract the data from
the AABB object.  I keep getting errors like "'AABB' object has no attribute
'__getitem__'"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks!



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[Diego]

Hi Rosen,

I had the same problem that Alex. Now it is working but I had to add this
line to openravepy_kinbody.cpp (line 2844)

     .def("GetCenterOfMass",&PyKinBody::GetCenterOfMass,
DOXY_FN(KinBody,GetCenterOfMass))

otherwise the wrapper does not recognize the function.

Best,
Diego



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[Diego]

Hi Rosen,

I had the same problem that Alex. Now it is working but I had to add this line to openravepy_kinbody.cpp (line 2844)

     .def("GetCenterOfMass",&PyKinBody::GetCenterOfMass, DOXY_FN(KinBody,GetCenterOfMass))

otherwise the wrapper does not recognize the function. It would be great if you could commit it.

Best,
Diego