Interfacing Dynamixel with ROS
If you successfully configured the Dynamixel servo, then it will be very easy to interface Dynamixel with ROS running on Ubuntu. As we've already discussed, there is no need of an FTDI driver in Ubuntu because it's already built into the kernel. The only thing we have to do is install the ROS Dynamixel driver packages.
The ROS Dynamixel packages are available at the following link:
http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_motor
You can install the Dynamixel ROS packages using commands we'll look at now.
Installing the ROS dynamixel_motor packages
The ROS dynamixel_motor
package stack is a dependency for the face tracker project, so we can install it to the ros_project_dependencies_ws
ROS workspace.
Open a Terminal and switch to the src
folder of the workspace:
$ cd ~/ros_project_dependencies_ws/src
Clone the latest Dynamixel driver packages from GitHub:
$ git clone https://github.com/arebgun/dynamixel_motor
Remember to do a catkin_make
to build the entire packages...