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How to use a different motor driver besides Arduino?

BLunc — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:02:18 GMT

I've already been playing with my robot that is using a RoboClaw motor controller (with ROS). It works well.

Now I'm looking to use it with the Euclid (just ordered, not here yet).

I found a pdf "arduino_motors_control.pdf" that has Arduino sketch code I can port to create a node on the Euclid for my motor driver.

That part is pretty straight forward. I'd like to know what else is needed to get the Euclid to use my node.

Re: How to use a different motor driver besides Arduino?

Tsahi_M_Intel — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:32:41 GMT

Hi Bruce,

you can add your driver to the ROS catkin workspace and compile it like in any other ROS device.

inorder to add it to the eculid web interface, please follow our guide from the http://www.euclidcommunity.intel.com/ Euclid community to register new node.

Regards,

Tsahi.

Intel Euclid Development Team

Re: How to use a different motor driver besides Arduino?

BLunc — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:18:58 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

To add a little more detail for reference, the document "Introduction to Euclid" on the community site describes details on creating a package and everything to install it on the web UI. Good read.

That makes understanding the existing Arduino motor control node easier and helps with creating my own driver.