Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ccny-ros-pkg/phidgets_drivers.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version hydro
Last Updated 2015-03-23
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
phidgets_api 0.2.2
phidgets_drivers 0.2.2
phidgets_imu 0.2.2
phidgets_ir 0.2.2

README

Phidgets drivers for ROS Groovy/Hydro

Overview

Drivers for the Phidgets devices. This Catkin metapackage includes:

  • phidgets_api: a package which downloads and builds the Phidgets C API from phidgets.com (as an external project). It also implements a C++ wrapper for the C API, providing a base Phidget class and various inherited classes for different phidget devices.

  • Two packages exposing the functionality of specific phidgets devices using the ROS API: phidgets_imu and phidgets_ir.

Installing

From source

Make sure you have a working catkin workspace, as described at: http://www.ros.org/wiki/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace

Also make sure you have git installed:

sudo apt-get install git-core

Change directory to the source folder of your catkin workspace. If, for instance, your workspace is ~/catkin_ws, make sure there is a src/ folder within it, then execute:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src

Download the metapackage from the github repository ( may be groovy or hydro):

git clone -b <ros_distro> https://github.com/ccny-ros-pkg/phidgets_drivers.git

Install dependencies using rosdep:

rosdep install phidgets_drivers

Alternatively, if rosdep does not work, install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev

Compile your catkin workspace:

cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make

Udev rules setup:

Make sure your catkin workspace has been successfully compiled. To set up the udev rules for the Phidgets USB devices, run the following commands:

cd ~/catkin_ws
sh src/phidgets_drivers/phidgets_api/share/setup-udev.sh

You will be prompted to type in your password.

For documentation regarding nodes, topics, etc:

http://ros.org/wiki/phidgets_drivers

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