ROS RoboClaw Support

General discussion of using Roboclaw motor controllers
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Re: ROS RoboClaw Support

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I see you emailed support for the ROS driver. We will be sending it out to the people who requested it later today or tomorrow.
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Re: ROS RoboClaw Support

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You can download the updated driver here: http://downloads.ionmc.com/code/roboclaw_node.zip

The roboclaw itself can process commands much faster than 2hz. Im not sure if you are being limited by the ROS system or not. Check the update rate you can reach with the updated driver and let me know.
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Re: ROS RoboClaw Support

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I believe you are mistaken as stated.

"What do you want to do exactly? Communicate with a ros_control based robot (ie: send trajectories and setpoints), or write your own controllers and/or hardware_interface implementations? The former is perfectly possible with Python, the latter basically requires C++ (although it could be interesting to see whether something like boost::python could be used)."

Based on what this person says you only need C++ if you are writing a custom interface which by definition would require you to write the communications code anyway. If you just want to use the interface we already provide you apparently can.

https://answers.ros.org/question/295388 ... l-package/

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