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What kind of terminal is compatible with ROS to connect sensors to a computer

Hi ROS community ! I work on a robot and we fixed a lot of sensors. But now, I need a terminal to connect sensor to my computer..Before, we used a NI compactRIO compatible with LabView but not with ROS. So I have to change this terminal to another compatible with ROS. Someone have an idea of what model and brand I have to choose ? Thank you

Asked by Lara on 2019-09-12 04:16:52 UTC

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It depends of your sensors. You can probably do a program to get your data from your terminal to ROS.

Asked by oiseau on 2019-09-12 06:17:30 UTC

I have temperature sensors, inertial, distance, sensors and fans.. I have to search another terminal to manipulate them with my computer but with ROS

Asked by Lara on 2019-09-12 07:07:11 UTC

You can manipulate your sensors with ROS by creating your own package that will get data from your NI compactRIO and publish them to a ROS Topic. You can use Python to do that : link text and link text . If you want another terminal, you can look at Arduino board, but I am not sure that this is a good solution.

Asked by oiseau on 2019-09-12 07:20:26 UTC

Before, we used a NI compactRIO compatible with LabView but not with ROS

Have you seen ROS for LabVIEW by Tufts University? It should be deployable to compactRIOs as well.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2019-09-12 07:41:06 UTC

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