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Dex5 right-hand URDF has 16 of 20 joints at effort="0"; the left twin has none #154

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robots/dexterous_hand_description/dex5_1/Dex5-URDF-R/Dex5-URDF-R.urdf declares
effort="0" on 16 of its 20 actuated joints. The mirror file has none.

Parsed from both files, (effort, velocity) distributions:

Dex5-URDF-R.urdf   20 joints, 16 zero-effort
   ('0.93', '4.18')        x4
   ('0',    '0.76794')     x2
   ('0',    '3.1415926')   x3
   ('0',    '3.368485398') x3
   ...

Dex5-URDF-L.urdf   20 joints, 0 zero-effort
   ('0.93', '4.18')   x4
   ('0.93', '0.76794')x3
   ('0.93', '3.1416') x4
   ('0.93', '3.3685') x4

Two things make this look like a defect rather than an intentional difference:

  • the left hand carries effort="0.93" on all 20, and the right file's own
    first four joints are also 0.93 — so the value is not in dispute, it is
    present in both files and was lost on 16 of the right hand's joints;
  • Roll_41R and Roll_51R additionally carry velocity="0".

URDF spells "unlimited" by omitting the attribute, so a declared effort="0"
is a declared inability to apply torque. In a consumer that honours it — anything
propagating getJointInfo()[10] into a position-control force, which is the
standard idiom in PyBullet, and equivalently in Gazebo and ros2_control — those
joints do not move at all, while the left hand's do.

The correct value is recoverable exactly: effort="0.93", from the mirror
file.

A caveat worth stating: MuJoCo's URDF path largely ignores effort, so a
MuJoCo-based workflow will not show this. The right hand looks fine in one
toolchain and is inert in another, with no error in either — which is probably
why it has survived.

I have not opened a PR because I do not know whether the velocity values should
also be mirrored (the two files use slightly different precision on the same
numbers — 3.1415926 vs 3.1416 — which suggests they were generated
separately rather than mirrored programmatically, so I did not want to guess at
which is canonical).

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