Issue with Active Joints in Parallel Leg Structure Not Loading into Articulation in IsaacSim

I’m encountering an issue where the active joints at the end of a parallel leg structure cannot be loaded into the articulation in IsaacSim. As shown in the video, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYDQgmslNUU) the upper part of the five-link parallel leg structure is driven by two joints named *Drive, while the lower part, which includes the wheels, has joints named *Wheel. All other joints are set as passive and have been excluded from articulation.

Currently, only the *Drive joints are correctly loaded, while the *Wheel joints are showing as unmatched to their targets. I have tested both the robotenv_cfg method in IsaacLab and the Omnigraph method in IsaacSim, but neither seems to recognize the *Wheel joints.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue? This would be particularly useful for walking robots with ankle joints and wheel-legged robots.

Thank you.

In IsaacLab,
ValueError: Not all regular expressions are matched! Please check that the regular expressions are correct:
LeftMotorDrive: [‘LeftMotorDrive’]
LeftPassiveDrive: [‘LeftPassiveDrive’]
RightMotorDrive: [‘RightMotorDrive’]
RightPassiveDrive: [‘RightPassiveDrive’]
LeftWheel:
RightWheel:
Available strings: [‘LeftPassiveDrive’, ‘LeftMotorDrive’, ‘RightMotorDrive’, ‘RightPassiveDrive’]

In Isaac Sim with Omni Gragh
Articulation Warning

If you are trying to control a drive at the end of legs like those on the diablo robot, I believe you would want to include all of the joints in the articulation but only put drives on those joints you would like to explicitly control.

Hi, Strain, thank you for your reply. I think your suggestion will be working on some serial structure robot, but not on my case. If I add all parallel joints into the articulation tree, the model will be crashed into pieces immediately.

Can you share screen shots of your scene structure? I’m having a hard time understanding how you’ve set things up.

Hi, Strain, here is a link to illustrat how the parallel biped wheeled robot setup, for your reference, thanks. https://en.directdrive.com/product_diablo

Is the robot chassis your articulation root?
Have you excluded one of the joints in each leg from the articulation?

Really cool project, by the way.