March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
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Interfacing seven DOF Dynamixel based robotic arm to ROS MoveIt!
In this section, we will discuss a 7 DOF robot manipulator called COOL arm-5000, which is manufactured by a company called ASIMOV Robotics (http://asimovrobotics.com/). The robot is built using Dynamixel servos (http://www.robotis.com/xe/dynamixel_en). We will see how to interface a Dynamixel-based robotic arm to ROS using dynamixel_controllers.
The following is a diagram of a COOL arm-5000:
Figure 15 : COOL Arm illustration.
COOL arm robots are fully compatible with ROS and MoveIt! and are mainly used in education and research. The price range is between 5K - 10K USD.
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