Control a solenoid valve with a 4-20mA analog signal using ROS
Hello everybody,
I'm working on a personnal project where I need to control a solenoid valve from my computer. The valve can be operated with a 4-20mA signal.
I want to implement a PID in a ROS node, and then find a way to communicate with the valve. There are two points I am struggling with :
Connecting the valve to the computer : I read some articles where they mentioned CAN bus, or I2C, etc... but I have no idea which device to use to link the hardware to my computer : an arduino for example ? A module for CANopen that has a 4-20mA output ?
Once the device chosen, how can I link that device to my computer and then to ROS ? I mean, according to certain value error, how can I send a command to the device to target for example 7mA to the valve ?
Thank you so muh for your help !
