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Franka Research 3 is an arm with 7 joints, made by Franka Robotics. This model comes from MuJoCo Menagerie by Google DeepMind, under the Apache-2.0 licence. Not made by Lucen Robotics. Listed as a reference model for simulation.

arm7 joints18.3 kg in simulation50 Hz

Use it from the command line

Downloads every file and checks each one. Run it again and it downloads only what changed.

lucen pull lucen/franka-fr3 ./franka-fr3

No CLI yet? Install it.

Franka Research 3, standing in its home pose

Move its joints, or let it fall under gravity, in your browser. About 10 MB the first time. Open the full simulator

README

README.md

Franka Research 3

Franka Research 3 is an arm with 7 joints, made by Franka Robotics. This model comes from MuJoCo Menagerie by Google DeepMind, under the Apache-2.0 licence. The licence text is in LICENSE.

Not made by Lucen Robotics. Listed as a reference model for simulation.

The source's own README is kept unchanged as SOURCE_README.md.

How it was set up

The files come from franka_fr3 in MuJoCo Menagerie, at commit 822c2d8. The robot card was drafted from the model by lucen robot init, as in Add your robot.

The model file does not state the values below. Each one comes from the source beside it.

SettingValueWhere it comes from
Control rate50 HzPlayground franka_emika_panda/pick.py ctrl_dt=0.02 (the Panda, the FR3's predecessor); the FR3's own FCI loop runs at 1 kHz (a starting point)
Actionjoint position targetjoint-position targets (FCI's joint position interface)
What a policy sensesjoint positions, joint velocitiesthe FR3's joint encoders
Commandjoint targetsa fixed-base arm commanded in joint space
Everything elseread from the model filejoint order, the home keyframe, and per-joint kp/kv and force limits from the MJCF's own <position> actuators.

A value marked as a starting point is not the maker's own. The checks on the robot page show how it behaves.

The configs cited above, at the commits read:

  • Playground: MuJoCo Playground, commit 4057c14. Each robot's task file, under locomotion or manipulation, in its default_config().

No file from the source was changed. This README, the robot card and the robot's pictures are new.