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Detailed description

Provide a Franka rope task through Arena for recording demonstrations, annotating subtask boundaries, and generating data with SoftMimicGen using PhysX.

• Add the rope asset, environment, task, Franka embodiment, cameras, teleoperation registration, and example task descriptor.
• Include an annotated source dataset and tests for environment configuration, recording, annotation, and single-environment and parallel data generation.
• Add writable Arena asset-cache support to the Docker CI launcher.

Stack layer 2/3: Core -> PhysX -> Newton. This PR targets the Core branch.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a Franka robot environment for deformable-rope manipulation, with keyboard and SpaceMouse control, optional cameras, and rope-state observations.
  • Added a SoftMimicGen configuration for generating rope-manipulation demonstrations.
  • Added Arena environment registration and a physx preset option for dataset generation and annotation.
  • Camera observations can now be included in recordings when cameras are enabled.
• Improvements
  • Dataset annotation and recording workflows now support rope tasks, including rope-state data and camera observations.

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This change adds a Franka rope Arena environment, its task and registration paths, and recording and dataset-generation support. It also configures the Docker cache mount used by CI.

Changes: Franka Rope Environment and Data Workflows

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rope asset, task, and embodiment autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/{rope_asset.py,task.py,embodiment.py}, autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/mdp/*	Adds the deformable rope asset, Franka IK embodiment, rope observations and reset and termination functions, and the task's observation, event, and termination configurations.
Environment assembly and registration autodata_examples/envs/{__init__.py,isaac_lab_arena/__init__.py}, autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/{registration.py,franka_rope/*}, autodata_tests/interfaces/env/test_franka_rope_arena.py	Builds the Arena scene and adds run-time and CLI registration for the Franka rope environment. Tests cover registration, environment configuration, and task and embodiment settings.
Recording and dataset workflows autodata_examples/tasks/franka_rope_softmimicgen.yaml, autodata_interfaces/env/{recorders.py,isaaclab_env_interface.py}, scripts/{annotate_demos.py,generate_dataset.py}, autodata_tests/e2e/*, autodata_tests/test_data/annotated_dataset_franka_rope_softmimicgen.hdf5	Adds camera observation recording, rope SoftMimicGen configuration, and environment registration and seeding in the annotation and dataset-generation scripts. E2E tests cover annotation, recording, rope simulation, and dataset generation.

CI Docker Cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CI cache directory and Docker mount scripts/ci/run_tests.sh, docker/run_docker.sh, autodata_tests/utils/test_ci_cache.py	The CI script selects or creates AUTODATA_DOCKER_CACHE_DIR. The Docker script mounts that directory at the container user's cache path, and tests check default and explicit paths.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DatasetScript as scripts/generate_dataset.py
  participant RunRegistration as register_environment_for_run
  participant ArenaRegistration as build_and_register_arena_environment
  participant GymMake as gym.make
  participant RopeEnvironment as FrankaRopeArenaEnvironment
  DatasetScript->>RunRegistration: environment name and run settings
  RunRegistration->>ArenaRegistration: Arena settings and optional preset
  ArenaRegistration-->>RunRegistration: constructor kwargs by environment ID
  RunRegistration-->>DatasetScript: environment-specific kwargs
  DatasetScript->>GymMake: environment ID and constructor kwargs
  GymMake->>RopeEnvironment: construct registered environment

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review b62f2

The new rope environment records the wrong joints under its gripper observation, which can silently corrupt demonstration and generated datasets. Annotation and generation may also stop at startup when the external registration callback is used with the rope environment. Fix the gripper observation and resolve the registration path before merging.

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Review comments at @autodata_examples/envs/__init__.py:
- Line 37: Update register_environments around
build_and_register_arena_environment to reuse an existing environment
registration when the external callback has already registered it with bound
constructor arguments, while preserving automatic registration when no
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- Line 109: Update the gripper_pos ObsTerm to pass a robot_cfg SceneEntityCfg
through params, selecting the panda finger joints so mdp.gripper_pos reads the
gripper joints rather than the first two articulation joints.

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• autodata_examples/envs/__init__.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/__init__.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/__init__.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/assets/Rope.usd
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/embodiment.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/environment.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/mdp/__init__.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/mdp/events.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/mdp/observations.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/mdp/terminations.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/rope_asset.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/franka_rope/task.py
• autodata_examples/envs/isaac_lab_arena/registration.py
• autodata_examples/tasks/franka_rope_softmimicgen.yaml
• autodata_interfaces/env/isaaclab_env_interface.py
• autodata_interfaces/env/recorders.py
• autodata_tests/e2e/test_annotation.py
• autodata_tests/e2e/test_recording.py
• autodata_tests/e2e/test_rope_environment.py
• autodata_tests/e2e/test_softmimicgen_data_generation.py
• autodata_tests/interfaces/env/test_franka_rope_arena.py
• autodata_tests/test_data/annotated_dataset_franka_rope_softmimicgen.hdf5
• autodata_tests/utils/test_ci_cache.py
• docker/run_docker.sh
• scripts/annotate_demos.py
• scripts/ci/run_tests.sh
• scripts/generate_dataset.py

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[bokalnv]

Preserve the generation-policy seed across gym.make; external Arena initialization currently overwrites it.

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Use the current rope condition during recording; latched completion bypasses the consecutive-success requirement.