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 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 and shown in the following image are some of the different versions of Dynamixel servos:
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 http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_controllers/Tutorials.