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Description

Adds RealHand teleoperation integration, including:

  • RealHand FFG Glove DeviceIO plugin
  • P7 arm retargeters
  • L6, O6, and L20 hand retargeters
  • Controller, OpenXR hand-tracking, and FFG Glove input support
  • Combined bimanual pipeline example and FFG calibration utility
  • Documentation and tests

RealHand assets are downloaded from a pinned revision of the public RealHand Hugging Face repository.

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Testing

  • Ran the Python and C++ tests added by this change
  • Validated asset downloading and combined pipeline construction
  • Tested controller, hand-tracking, and FFG Glove inputs with the reference Isaac Lab setup

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for RealHand FFG Gloves on Linux, including separate left- and right-hand sensor streams.
    • Added retargeting for L6, O6, and L20 hands, with controller, hand-tracking, and glove input options.
    • Added a bimanual P7 teleoperation example, glove calibration utility, and RealHand asset download tool.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup guides for glove use, retargeting, calibration, and robot assets.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for glove protocol, retargeting, asset downloads, and the example pipeline.

Signed-off-by: Huadong Zhang <jpoezhang@gmail.com>
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This change adds RealHand support for L6, O6, and L20 assemblies. It includes a serial glove plugin, Python profiles and retargeters for pose, hand-tracking, controller, and glove inputs, plus tools for glove calibration and asset retrieval. A bimanual P7 example combines these inputs into an action output. The change also adds build integration, tests, and device and retargeting documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RealHandFFGGlovePlugin
  participant JointStateSource
  participant RealHandFFGGloveRetargeter
  participant BimanualPipeline
  participant TeleopSession
  RealHandFFGGlovePlugin->>JointStateSource: Publish left and right joint-state samples
  JointStateSource->>RealHandFFGGloveRetargeter: Provide glove sensor values
  RealHandFFGGloveRetargeter->>BimanualPipeline: Map sensor values to hand-joint targets
  BimanualPipeline->>TeleopSession: Combine hand targets and end-effector poses
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 04e30

A stalled glove connection can halt glove updates and consume CPU; the device catalog also directs users to the wrong plugin location. Bound the serial write retry before merging and correct the link.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main RealHand integration, including the plugin, dexterous hands, robot arms, and data gloves.
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Review comments at @docs/source/_data/devices.yaml:
- Line 237: Update the URL for the realhand_ffg_glove plugin entry to use the
NVIDIA/IsaacTeleop repository, preserving its existing plugin path.

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@src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_serial.cpp:
- Around line 129-134: Update the write retry loop in SerialGlove::send to
handle EINTR by retrying and EAGAIN by waiting briefly for the descriptor to
become writable; throw on timeout so poll_endpoint can drop the endpoint instead
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  • CMakeLists.txt
  • docs/source/_data/devices.yaml
  • docs/source/device/realhand_ffg_glove.rst
  • docs/source/index.rst
  • docs/source/references/retargeting/index.rst
  • docs/source/references/retargeting/realhand.rst
  • examples/teleop/python/assets/realhand/.gitignore
  • examples/teleop/python/assets/realhand/README.md
  • examples/teleop/python/p7_realhand_bimanual_example.py
  • examples/teleop/python/realhand_ffg_glove_calibration.py
  • examples/teleop/python/scripts/fetch_realhand_assets.py
  • src/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/CMakeLists.txt
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/README.md
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/main.cpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/plugin.yaml
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_plugin.cpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_plugin.hpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_protocol.cpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_protocol.hpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_serial.cpp
  • src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/realhand_ffg_glove_serial.hpp
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/__init__.py
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/realhand/__init__.py
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/realhand/arm.py
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/realhand/hand.py
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/realhand/profiles.py
  • src/python/isaaccapture/retargeters/realhand/realhand_ffg_glove.py
  • tests/cpp/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
  • tests/cpp/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/CMakeLists.txt
  • tests/cpp/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove/test_realhand_ffg_glove_protocol.cpp
  • tests/python/core/retargeting_engine/conftest.py
  • tests/python/core/retargeting_engine/pyproject.toml
  • tests/python/core/retargeting_engine/test_realhand_asset_fetcher.py
  • tests/python/core/retargeting_engine/test_realhand_example.py
  • tests/python/core/retargeting_engine/test_realhand_retargeters.py

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- label: RealHand FFG Glove Plugin
url: https://github.com/NVIDIA/IsaacCapture/tree/main/src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The plugin link points to the wrong repository.

Line 237 links to NVIDIA/IsaacCapture. Every other plugin entry in this file links to https://github.com/NVIDIA/IsaacTeleop/tree/main/src/plugins/..., so this link is broken.

-          url: https://github.com/NVIDIA/IsaacCapture/tree/main/src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove
+          url: https://github.com/NVIDIA/IsaacTeleop/tree/main/src/plugins/realhand_ffg_glove
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if (count < 0)
{
if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)
{
continue;
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The write loop busy-spins on EAGAIN and has no bound.

SerialGlove opens the descriptor with O_NONBLOCK. When the TTY output buffer is full, ::write returns EAGAIN, and the loop retries immediately with no wait. If the device stops draining, for example because it has stalled or flow control is holding it, send never returns. The plugin update thread then pins a CPU core. The 1 s stale-timeout check in poll_endpoint cannot run while send is blocked, so drop_endpoint never runs either.

Fix: on EAGAIN, wait on select/poll for writability with a short timeout. If the timeout expires, throw so that poll_endpoint drops the endpoint.

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-            if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)
-            {
-                continue;
-            }
+            if (errno == EINTR)
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (errno == EAGAIN)
+            {
+                fd_set write_set;
+                FD_ZERO(&write_set);
+                FD_SET(fd_, &write_set);
+                timeval wait{ 0, 50'000 };
+                if (::select(fd_ + 1, nullptr, &write_set, nullptr, &wait) <= 0)
+                {
+                    throw std::runtime_error("write timed out for " + port_);
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
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if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)
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{
if (errno == EINTR)
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}
if (errno == EAGAIN)
{
fd_set write_set;
FD_ZERO(&write_set);
FD_SET(fd_, &write_set);
timeval wait{ 0, 50'000 };
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around lines 129 - 134:
Update the write retry loop in SerialGlove::send to handle EINTR by retrying and
EAGAIN by waiting briefly for the descriptor to become writable; throw on
timeout so poll_endpoint can drop the endpoint instead of allowing an unbounded
busy-spin.

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