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ros node, communication with python, control epos2 50/5 for maxon
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Looking for ESCON 24/2 ROS package #1

Closed prasuchit closed 6 years ago

prasuchit commented 6 years ago

Hi, I'm fairly new to ROS and I just bought Maxon ESCON 24/2 motor drivers for my project and I'm trying to interface them with ROS. I was wondering if this same package can do that if there are any changes I need to make in this code or there is an entirely different package for that. If so, could you point me in the right direction?

guzhaoyuan commented 6 years ago

According to the manual section 1.2 https://www.maxonmotor.com/medias/sys_master/root/8818449776670/466023-ESCON-Module-24-2-Hardware-Reference-En.pdf I don't think ESCON 24/2 is able to receive digital command at runtime, there is no linux driver and api to communicate with it. Once setup, it seems only read IO inputs to drive servo. So there seems nothing could be done with ros. This repo is highly project relevant so please don't comment here.