Receive Joint efforts for ABB Yumi

asked 2018-12-12 09:41:12 -0600

Marcolino gravatar image

updated 2018-12-12 10:23:39 -0600

Hello, I'm controlling the ABB Yumi IR14000 Robot using MATLAB through ROS. I used the ABB driver option and apparently there's no rostopic that allows to receive data about the joint effort. Is it possible to receive that kind of information using the RWS option? Is there another possible way to get the data?

I have the ABB and RWS drivers from a GitHub KTH package. KTH package info: https://github.com/kth-ros-pkg/yumi/w...

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What is "the RWS driver"?

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2018-12-12 09:45:54 -0600 )edit

Sorry, it isn't a proper driver, is a robot web interface, it offers some different rostopics compared to the normal abb driver.

Marcolino gravatar image Marcolino  ( 2018-12-12 09:53:23 -0600 )edit

Can you refer to a specific package? The "RWS" I know is an ABB technology / RobotWare option, not a ROS component.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2018-12-12 09:56:44 -0600 )edit

https://github.com/kth-ros-pkg/yumi/w... ; https://github.com/kth-ros-pkg/yumi/w...

At the second link, the three possible interfaces to communicate with the robot are described. Maybe as you say it's an ABB option, I've to admit I'm not so expert about it.

Marcolino gravatar image Marcolino  ( 2018-12-12 10:08:24 -0600 )edit

RWS there is the ABB technology / RobotWare option. It's not a ROS driver or component.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2018-12-12 10:14:28 -0600 )edit

Thanks to notify the mistake, I will correct it in the question. Do you know if it's possible using that option it's possible to receive data about joint efforts?

Marcolino gravatar image Marcolino  ( 2018-12-12 10:17:32 -0600 )edit

You'd have to check the documentation for RWS I would say. A quick Google of the RWS documentation doesn't seem to indicate that joint effort is made available.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2018-12-12 10:29:40 -0600 )edit

Do you have any idea about different ways to get it? (Currently I don't have the possibility of the EGM) For example in the past I used some rostopics from the standard ABB driver option, the topic's name was: /joint_states or /left_arm/joint_states but the field related to the effort was empty

Marcolino gravatar image Marcolino  ( 2018-12-12 10:41:50 -0600 )edit