February 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 20m
English
Content preview from Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
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Interfacing DYNAMIXEL actuators to ROS
One of the latest smart actuators available on the market is DYNAMIXEL, which is manufactured by a company called Robotis. The DYNAMIXEL servos are available in various versions, some of which are shown in the following image:
Figure 27: Different types of DYNAMIXEL servos
These smart actuators have complete support in ROS, and clear documentation is also available for them.
The official ROS wiki page of DYNAMIXEL is at http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_controllers/Tutorials.