Draft: Add basic planar joint support in the urdf parser #915
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Levi and I discussed how to implement this. The better solution would probably be to implement planar joints in the state solver. However, that would touch a lot of things. Instead we decided to get an MVP working by inserting 3 joints for each planar joint in the URDF. They are named
<urdf_name>_<x, y, or yaw>_planar
. Then the ROS environment monitor will listen to TF and update these TFs as appropriate