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Summary

  • add a reusable SemanticProfile envelope with versioning, required/optional handling, opaque typed payloads, and content-addressed external resources
  • add portable tactile measurement, geometry, status, OpenXR hand, URDF, and IsaacCapture pose-stream schemas with semantic validation and a generated TactileTracker
  • add a minimal feeder/printer example under examples/tactile; the printer reports metadata and the first/last taxel values once per second through the standard DeviceIO interface

Protocol boundary

The per-frame schema contains only tactile values and per-taxel status. Immutable geometry and measurement semantics use tracker metadata. Skeleton and runtime associations use typed profiles, so unknown extensions remain forwardable and IsaacCapture-specific session identifiers do not enter the portable tactile core.

The taxel frame is right-handed: +Z is the outward normal, +X is the tangent, and +Y is N x T.

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  • C++ schema suite: 125 test cases, 757 assertions
  • Python schema suite: 22 tests
  • tracker code generator: 29 tests
  • live, replay, recording, and Python generated tracker targets compiled
  • feeder/printer imports, CLI help, metadata construction, frame validation, and terminal formatting exercised
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  • New Features

    • Added tactile data support, including metadata, measurements, taxel statuses, binding profiles, and validation.
    • Added Python APIs for creating, reading, validating, and serializing tactile data and semantic profiles.
    • Added a tactile tracker for publishing and receiving tactile streams.
    • Added OpenXR hand, URDF, and pose-based tactile binding options.
  • Examples

    • Added a tactile feeder and printer demonstrating live data exchange.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup and usage instructions for running the tactile examples.

Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
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The change adds FlatBuffers schemas for semantic profiles and tactile data, with C++ validation and Python bindings. It registers a tactile tracker and adds feeder and printer examples. The feeder publishes synthetic tactile frames and metadata; the printer receives the stream and prints metadata and sampled values. C++ and Python tests cover serialization and validation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Feeder as Tactile feeder
  participant TactileTracker
  participant Printer as Tactile printer
  Feeder->>TactileTracker: Publish metadata and tactile frames
  TactileTracker->>Printer: Deliver metadata and tactile data
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ed7f9

The new tactile schemas, bindings, and examples look sound. One gap remains: validation does not reject tactile profiles or metadata from an incompatible future major version, so they are treated as the current version. This is easy to fix, and fixing it now keeps the forward-compatibility guarantee before other producers adopt the format.

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Review comments at @src/core/schema/cpp/inc/schema/tactile_validation.hpp:
- Around line 63-75: Update validate_tactile_binding_profile to reject profiles
unless profile.version_major() equals 1, while accepting any minor version.
Update validate_tactile_metadata to reject metadata unless
metadata.schema_version() equals 1, replacing the current non-zero check and
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  • examples/CMakeLists.txt
  • examples/tactile/CMakeLists.txt
  • examples/tactile/README.md
  • examples/tactile/pyproject.toml
  • examples/tactile/python/isaaccapture_examples/tactile/__init__.py
  • examples/tactile/python/isaaccapture_examples/tactile/common.py
  • examples/tactile/python/isaaccapture_examples/tactile/feeder.py
  • examples/tactile/python/isaaccapture_examples/tactile/printer.py
  • src/core/deviceio_trackers/trackers.toml
  • src/core/schema/cpp/inc/schema/tactile_profiles.hpp
  • src/core/schema/cpp/inc/schema/tactile_validation.hpp
  • src/core/schema/fbs/profile.fbs
  • src/core/schema/fbs/tactile.fbs
  • src/core/schema/fbs/tactile_binding_profile.fbs
  • src/core/schema/fbs/tactile_metadata.fbs
  • src/core/schema/golden/profile.bfbs
  • src/core/schema/golden/tactile.bfbs
  • src/core/schema/golden/tactile_binding_profile.bfbs
  • src/core/schema/golden/tactile_metadata.bfbs
  • src/core/schema/python/CMakeLists.txt
  • src/core/schema/python/profile_bindings.h
  • src/core/schema/python/schema_module.cpp
  • src/core/schema/python/schema_serialized.h
  • src/core/schema/python/tactile_binding_profile_bindings.h
  • src/core/schema/python/tactile_bindings.h
  • src/core/schema/python/tactile_metadata_bindings.h
  • src/python/isaaccapture/schema/__init__.py
  • tests/cpp/core/schema/CMakeLists.txt
  • tests/cpp/core/schema/test_profile.cpp
  • tests/cpp/core/schema/test_tactile.cpp
  • tests/python/core/schema/test_profile.py
  • tests/python/core/schema/test_tactile.py

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Comment on lines +63 to +75
inline void validate_tactile_binding_profile(const SemanticProfile& profile, size_t node_count)
{
const auto* payload = profile.payload();
if (!equals(profile.payload_schema(), TACTILE_BINDING_PROFILE_SCHEMA) || payload == nullptr)
{
throw std::invalid_argument("known tactile binding profile has the wrong payload schema");
}
flatbuffers::Verifier verifier(payload->data(), payload->size());
if (!verifier.VerifyBuffer<TactileBindingProfile>(nullptr))
{
throw std::invalid_argument("tactile binding profile payload is not a valid FlatBuffer");
}
const auto* binding = flatbuffers::GetRoot<TactileBindingProfile>(payload->data());

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject a known binding profile when its version_major is not 1.

validate_tactile_binding_profile checks the profile ID and then parses payload as the v1 TactileBindingProfile layout. It never reads profile.version_major(). The schema comment says that version_major controls compatibility. A profile with a known ID and version_major = 2 (or 0) is therefore parsed and accepted as v1. The validator reports the profile as understood, but the payload semantics can differ. A REQUIRED profile must fail closed in this case. Check the major version only. Accept any version_minor, because minor changes are additive.

validate_tactile_metadata (Line 172) has the same gap: it accepts any non-zero schema_version, so a v2 metadata buffer passes as v1.

Proposed fix
 inline void validate_tactile_binding_profile(const SemanticProfile& profile, size_t node_count)
 {
+    if (profile.version_major() != 1)
+    {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("unsupported tactile binding profile major version");
+    }
     const auto* payload = profile.payload();

At Line 172:

-    if (metadata.schema_version() == 0)
+    if (metadata.schema_version() != 1)
     {
-        throw std::invalid_argument("schema_version must be positive");
+        throw std::invalid_argument("unsupported tactile schema_version");
     }

Based on learnings: "readers/parsers should reject inputs with a different major version (breaking changes), but accept any minor version difference within the same major."

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inline void validate_tactile_binding_profile(const SemanticProfile& profile, size_t node_count)
{
const auto* payload = profile.payload();
if (!equals(profile.payload_schema(), TACTILE_BINDING_PROFILE_SCHEMA) || payload == nullptr)
{
throw std::invalid_argument("known tactile binding profile has the wrong payload schema");
}
flatbuffers::Verifier verifier(payload->data(), payload->size());
if (!verifier.VerifyBuffer<TactileBindingProfile>(nullptr))
{
throw std::invalid_argument("tactile binding profile payload is not a valid FlatBuffer");
}
const auto* binding = flatbuffers::GetRoot<TactileBindingProfile>(payload->data());
inline void validate_tactile_binding_profile(const SemanticProfile& profile, size_t node_count)
{
if (profile.version_major() != 1)
{
throw std::invalid_argument("unsupported tactile binding profile major version");
}
const auto* payload = profile.payload();
if (!equals(profile.payload_schema(), TACTILE_BINDING_PROFILE_SCHEMA) || payload == nullptr)
{
throw std::invalid_argument("known tactile binding profile has the wrong payload schema");
}
flatbuffers::Verifier verifier(payload->data(), payload->size());
if (!verifier.VerifyBuffer<TactileBindingProfile>(nullptr))
{
throw std::invalid_argument("tactile binding profile payload is not a valid FlatBuffer");
}
const auto* binding = flatbuffers::GetRoot<TactileBindingProfile>(payload->data());
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Review comment at @src/core/schema/cpp/inc/schema/tactile_validation.hpp around
lines 63 - 75:
Update validate_tactile_binding_profile to reject profiles unless
profile.version_major() equals 1, while accepting any minor version. Update
validate_tactile_metadata to reject metadata unless metadata.schema_version()
equals 1, replacing the current non-zero check and preserving its existing
invalid-argument behavior.

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