picknik_controllers
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Library
ROS 2 controllers that forward cartesian twist commands and reset hardware faults, prefixed with picknik_ for later contribution to ros2_controllers.
Made by PickNik Robotics, United States (checked on github.com/PickNikRobotics (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/PickNikRobotics/picknik_controllers (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 8b5f4ab (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 8b5f4ab (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- PicknikTwistController forwards geometry_msgs Twist commands published to its commands topic to the hardware's built-in cartesian twist controller.
- Joint-based and twist controllers cannot run at the same time; the hardware driver rejects activating both.
- PicknikResetFaultController offers a service that clears faults in a hardware interface.
- It publishes the current faulted state on a boolean topic.
- Resetting a fault requires deactivating robot controllers first and reactivating them afterward.
- Example configurations are given for a Kinova Gen3 7-DOF arm through ros2_kortex.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 8b5f4ab.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- a robot driver) that exposes the required interfaces.
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 0.0.4 (19 Mar 2025)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
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