Sensor data via USB

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Okay with the info provided I think I can sort of give some help. Check this past answer too btw.

So you in order to get the data in ROS, you need to make a wrapper for your sensor, if you know it's serial communication check the serial support for ROS here.

Also the guy from the answer made a nice simple example of ROS serial communication here

From his code:

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <serial/serial.h>
#include <std_msgs/String.h>
#include <std_msgs/Empty.h>

serial::Serial ser;

void write_callback(const std_msgs::String::ConstPtr& msg){
    ROS_INFO_STREAM("Writing to serial port" << msg->data);
    ser.write(msg->data);
}

int main (int argc, char** argv){
    ros::init(argc, argv, "serial_example_node");
    ros::NodeHandle nh;

    ros::Subscriber write_sub = nh.subscribe("write", 1000, write_callback);
    ros::Publisher read_pub = nh.advertise<std_msgs::String>("read", 1000);

    try
    {
        ser.setPort("/dev/ttyACM0");
        ser.setBaudrate(9600);
        serial::Timeout to = serial::Timeout::simpleTimeout(1000);
        ser.setTimeout(to);
        ser.open();
    }
    catch (serial::IOException& e)
    {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM("Unable to open port ");
        return -1;
    }

    if(ser.isOpen()){
        ROS_INFO_STREAM("Serial Port initialized");
    }else{
        return -1;
    }

    ros::Rate loop_rate(5);
    while(ros::ok()){

        ros::spinOnce();

        if(ser.available()){
            ROS_INFO_STREAM("Reading from serial port");
            std_msgs::String result;
            result.data = ser.read(ser.available());
            ROS_INFO_STREAM("Read: " << result.data);
            read_pub.publish(result);
        }
        loop_rate.sleep();

    }
}

I think it doesn't get any simpler than that. Once you read the data from the serial port you can use it in your project. Good luck and happy coding!