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Ports Isaac Lab's Se2SpaceMouse/Se3SpaceMouse off the raw HID protocol onto the IsaacTeleop session API. Validated against IsaacLab's existing implementation and pyspacemouse (a third-party Python
SpaceMouse SDK) to confirm protocol details.

  • spacemouse.fbs + (codegen'd) SpaceMouseTracker: raw translation/rotation axes + button state, no semantic mapping.
  • spacemouse plugin: standalone Linux HID reader (hidraw), self-discovers its device via HID_NAME sysfs matching against 4 known SpaceMouse product families (SpaceMouse Compact, Wireless, SpaceNavigator
    for Notebooks, and the 3Dconnexion Universal Receiver's combined-report layout), auto-launched by PluginManager.
  • SpaceMouseSource (IDeviceIOSource) exposing "spacemouse_translation", "spacemouse_rotation" (3-entry float arrays), and "spacemouse_buttons" (8-entry bitmap) -- reported as-is; retargeters own all
    mapping.
  • SpaceMouseToSe3RelRetargeter + SpaceMouseGripperRetargeter (translation/rotation -> EE delta, left-button toggle -> gripper) and SpaceMouseToSe2Retargeter (translation/rotation -> base velocity),
    matching the legacy Se3SpaceMouse/Se2SpaceMouse axis mapping and sensitivities -- including Se2's non-inverted omega_z, a faithful port of the legacy implementation's asymmetry with Se3's rotation
    mapping (documented in-code).
  • spacemouse_printer_example.py: live translation/rotation/button printer, mirroring the keyboard/gamepad examples.

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  • Documentation update

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No physical SpaceMouse device was available for live testing. Verified structurally: OpenXR session creation, tracker registration, and plugin auto-launch all succeed; the plugin correctly reports "No
SpaceMouse-family device found" and exits cleanly when no hardware is attached (the expected, correct failure mode). Full schema/source/retargeter unit-test suite (20 tests) passes with synthetic data
covering translation/rotation mapping, single- and multi-button bitmaps, gripper toggle (including the reset-frame edge case), and inactive-device defaults.

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This change adds Linux SpaceMouse support across the plugin, FlatBuffers schema, Python bindings, DeviceIO source nodes, and retargeters. The plugin discovers and decodes HID reports, then publishes timestamped output. Python code exposes translation, rotation, and button tensors. SE(3), gripper, and SE(2) retargeters convert this data into teleoperation commands. The change also adds build and installation wiring, documentation, a printer example, and unit tests.

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The change can leave retained nonzero SpaceMouse axes active after device loss, allowing stale motion input, and the public gripper retargeter may fail to import when SciPy is not installed as a declared dependency. Merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

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  participant SpaceMouse
  participant spacemouse_plugin
  participant SchemaPusher
  participant SpaceMouseTracker
  participant SpaceMouseSource
  participant SpaceMouseRetargeter
  SpaceMouse->>spacemouse_plugin: send HID reports
  spacemouse_plugin->>SchemaPusher: publish SpaceMouseOutput
  SpaceMouseTracker->>SchemaPusher: read tracked output
  SpaceMouseSource->>SpaceMouseTracker: poll device state
  SpaceMouseSource->>SpaceMouseRetargeter: provide translation, rotation, and buttons
  SpaceMouseRetargeter-->>SpaceMouseSource: return teleoperation command
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In `@src/plugins/spacemouse/spacemouse_plugin.cpp`:
- Around line 175-177: Update close_device() to also reset translation_ and
rotation_ when the device is lost, alongside clearing pressed_buttons_. Ensure
push_current_state() cannot publish stale nonzero motion with is_valid = true
after disconnect or failed reconnect attempts.

In `@src/python/isaacteleop/retargeters/__init__.py`:
- Around line 122-126: Update the SpaceMouseGripperRetargeter entry in the
retargeter export mapping to use the lazy-import extra "retargeters-lite",
ensuring SciPy is declared before loading .spacemouse_se3_retargeter.
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  • src/core/schema/python/CMakeLists.txt
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  • src/plugins/spacemouse/README.md
  • src/plugins/spacemouse/main.cpp
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  • src/plugins/spacemouse/spacemouse_plugin.cpp
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  • src/python/isaacteleop/deviceio/__init__.py
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@rwiltz rwiltz changed the title Rwiltz/implement spacemouse Add spacemouse SE3/SE2 device: schema, tracker, plugin, retargeters Aug 25, 2026
Signed-off-by: Rafael Wiltz <rwiltz@nvidia.com>
The Record-type comment described how trackers/McapRecorder serialize and
query data, which is implementation detail that doesn't belong in the wire
schema. Keep the comment to what the type is.

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