# Go2Py ## What is it? This is a Pythonic interface and driver for low-level and high-level control of Unitree Go2 quadruped robots. The motivation of this project is to ease the burden of initial interface development, safety systems of Go2 quadruped by providing a modular pipeline for real-time communication with the robot in both simulated and real world with a unified interface. This project is comprised of the following components: - **C++ Bridge:** A dockerized ROS2 bridge built upon the [unitree_ros2](https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unitree_ros2) that implements an remote controlled emergency stop and publishes the robot states as standard ROS2 topics usable by upstream systems such as NAV2. - **Robot Interface:** A simple Python class that represents the robot and communicates with the C++ bridge through either DDS (ROS independent) or ROS2 interfaces. - **Robot Management FSM:** A finite state machine for controlling the behavior of the robot up to the point of handover to the user low-level controller (sitting down, standing up) with safety monitors (motor temperatures, emergency stops). - **Robot Model:** A simple to use [Pinocchio](https://github.com/stack-of-tasks/pinocchio) wrapper for computing the kinematics and dynamics parameters of the robot. - **Simulation Interface:** Simulation environments based on Mujoco and Nvidia Orbit (To be added) with a Python interface identical to the read robot. ## How does it look like? Communication with the robot will be as simple as importing a Python class: ```python from Go2Py.robot.interface.dds import GO2Real from Go2Py.robot.model import Go2Model robot = GO2Real(mode='lowlevel') model = Go2Model() robot.standDownReset() while running: joint_state = robot.getJointStates() imu = robot.getIMU() remote = robot.getRemoteState() model.update(state['q'], state['dq'],T,vel) # T and vel from the EKF info = model.getInfo() #User control computations ... robot.setCommands(q_des, dq_des, kp, kd, tau_ff) ``` An identical workflow is can be followed for simulation: ```python from Go2Py.sim.mujoco import Go2Sim from Go2Py.robot.model import Go2Model robot = Go2Sim() model = Go2Model() robot.standDownReset() while running: joint_state = robot.getJointStates() imu = robot.getIMU() remote = robot.getRemoteState() model.update(state['q'], state['dq'],T,vel) # T and vel from the EKF info = model.getInfo() #User control computations ... robot.setCommands(q_des, dq_des, kp, kd, tau_ff) robot.step() ``` ## Installation Follow through the steps in here to [setup](docs/setup.md) the robot and Go2Py. ## Further Examples A set of sorted examples are provided in the [examples](examples) directory to get you up and running quickly: - High-level body velocity interface (ROS2) - High-level body velocity interface (DDS) - Low-level joint interface (ROS2) - Low-level joint interface (DDS) - Low-level simulation interface - Contact Force Estimation - Foot Contact Estimation - Extended Kalman Filter Legged Inertial State Estimator - Walk These Ways RL Controller