dimensionalOS / dimensionalOS/dimos

Add roboplan as a kinematic backend

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Description

Problem

RoboPlan is the default world and motion-planning backend for DimOS manipulation, but inverse kinematics defaults to Pink. IK therefore runs against a separate kinematics model instead of the RoboPlan scene, planning-group mappings, joint-index semantics, and collision state used by the rest of the planning stack.

DimOS has no RoboPlan-native IK path exposed through the manipulation kinematics contract. Backend selection also does not follow the selected planning world, so a default RoboPlan stack is not fully native and composite planning-group requests cannot use RoboPlan's bundled IK capabilities.

This split makes it harder to keep IK, collision checking, and path planning consistent for single-arm, multi-group, and multi-robot manipulation.

Related implementation: dimensionalOS/dimos#3230


Synced from DIM-1357 by che

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the manipulation kinematics contract and the related implementation in dimensionalOS/dimos#3230; trace how planning-world and backend selection currently choose Pink. Done means RoboPlan is exposed as a native kinematic backend and follows the selected planning world for composite planning-group requests across single-arm, multi-group, and multi-robot manipulation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend-api-design, robotics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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