Add surface coverage demo objectives

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needs: moveit_pro/#22344

Motivation

Gives the surface-coverage feature from PickNikRobotics/moveit_pro#22344 something runnable to demonstrate it. Without a shipped Objective, the only way to see coverage painted on a target is to hand-write the Behavior wiring.

Brief description

Two lab_sim Objectives, plus the CI classification for the interactive one.

• Record Surface Coverage Demo — sweeps two patches of the bench in one run and accumulates the treated surface in the 3D view. Non-interactive, so CI runs it.
• Select Region and Record Coverage — the operator picks the region with GetRegionFromUser, then the sweep is planned, executed, and recorded.

Both capture the target with the wrist camera, crop to a region, fit an oriented bounding box, generate a coverage path, execute it as a Cartesian plan, and feed the executed tool poses to RecordSurfaceCoverage. Feeding the result back through previous_coverage is what accumulates the two patches within a run.

Both run under joint_trajectory_controller, not the admittance controller the neighbouring select_region_for_coverage_path.xml activates. The sweep travels at a 0.04 m standoff and never contacts the surface, so compliance is unused — while the admittance controller's default_path_tolerance: 0.5 (picknik_ur.ros2_control.yaml, set only in its block; plain JTC configures a goal tolerance and no path constraint) aborts the trajectory whenever tracking drifts. Measured on lab_sim: 3 aborted runs out of 5 under the admittance controller, then 3 successes out of 3 under plain JTC with the simulator still overrunning its 600 Hz loop at the same rate, which is what rules the overruns out as the cause.

select_region_and_record_coverage.xml also takes up the Look at Table viewing pose before prompting. Without it the operator drew on whatever view the previous run happened to leave behind, and the sweep was planned from an arbitrary configuration — the cause of the PlanCartesianPath "maximum allowed deviation exceeded" failures seen while testing.

Notes for the reviewer

• Select Region and Record Coverage is added to skip_objectives in src/lab_sim/test/objectives_integration_test.py, next to the existing Select Region for Coverage Path entry and for the same reason: GetRegionFromUser needs a UI prompt that headless CI cannot answer.
• Neither Objective is favorited. scripts/check_objective_favorites.sh caps lab_sim at 8 and these would have made 10. Unfavoriting two existing Objectives to make room would be an unrelated change.
• Record Surface Coverage Demo is left in the CI suite deliberately. It calls GetPointCloud on /wrist_camera/points twice, and several existing entries in skip_objectives are there because that topic times out on CI runners without a camera warmup delay. Rather than pre-emptively skipping it on suspicion, it runs — if it turns out to be flaky once #22344 lands and CI can actually build it, the skip can be added then with evidence.

How it was tested

Record Surface Coverage Demo was run end to end in lab_sim against a MuJoCo backend: the Objective succeeded, both bench patches were painted green in the 3D view, the Surface Coverage layer appeared in the View menu, and the legend reported 2,240 treated points. The coverage stayed in place after the arm moved away, which is what recording in the world frame is for.

CI on this PR is red until moveit_pro#22344 merges and the base image ships RecordSurfaceCoverage — that is what the needs: line above coordinates.

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• New Features

  • Added a runnable surface-coverage demo for scanning two bench regions with the robot arm.
  • Added an interactive objective that lets users select a camera region and record its surface coverage.
  • Coverage results are accumulated, displayed in the UI, and the arm returns home after scanning.

• Tests

  • Updated integration-test handling for the interactive objective, which requires UI input.

Walkthrough

Changes

Surface coverage objectives

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Demo coverage sweeps src/lab_sim/objectives/record_surface_coverage_demo.xml	Adds a runnable objective with two fixed-region coverage sweeps. Each sweep processes wrist-camera point clouds, executes a Cartesian path, accumulates world-frame coverage, and publishes the result before returning the arm home.
Interactive region coverage workflow src/lab_sim/objectives/select_region_and_record_coverage.xml, src/lab_sim/test/objectives_integration_test.py	Adds a runnable objective that converts user-drawn regions into 3D masks, generates and approves coverage trajectories, records cumulative coverage, and publishes it. The integration test skips this objective because its UI prompt service is unavailable.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b3c42

Rerunning the interactive workflow loses previously recorded regions despite its advertised cumulative coverage behavior. Add a persistence and restore path before merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The pull request description directly explains the two new surface-coverage Objectives, their behavior, testing, CI classification, and dependency on moveit_pro#22344. It is clearly related to the cha…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Human Review Check	✅ Passed	The PR is low-risk under this check. The complete diff contains only two new lab_sim objective XML files and one integration-test skip-list entry. The XML files add runnable examples and consume beh…

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In `@src/lab_sim/objectives/select_region_and_record_coverage.xml`:
- Around line 147-148: Ensure the objective has a durable restore path for
coverage_cloud across Objective Server executions: either restore it through the
supported execution override or persist and reload it before the first
RecordSurfaceCoverage action. Preserve the existing accumulation behavior of
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Add a durable restore path for coverage_cloud. The two RecordSurfaceCoverage ports accumulate within the current execution’s blackboard. A new Objective Server execution has no prior coverage_cloud, and this objective declares no input or caller-side restore path. Reruns therefore cannot preserve earlier regions, despite the objective description promising accumulation. Restore coverage_cloud through a supported execution override or persist it before the first RecordSurfaceCoverage action.

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In `@src/lab_sim/objectives/select_region_and_record_coverage.xml` around lines
147 - 148, Ensure the objective has a durable restore path for coverage_cloud
across Objective Server executions: either restore it through the supported
execution override or persist and reload it before the first
RecordSurfaceCoverage action. Preserve the existing accumulation behavior of
both RecordSurfaceCoverage ports and the previous_coverage/coverage_cloud
bindings.

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