Controlling UR10e: using Universal Robot driver (1st approach)

It is crucial to have a clean and working catkin workspace, that we can run

cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make

without running into any trouble.

I can remotely control the UR10e manipulator by following the instructions in 

https://github.com/UniversalRobots/Universal_Robots_ROS_Driver:

Just need to do, step-by-step, everything that is reported on the following ReadMe sections:

  1. Building (skip the Alternative: All-source build)
  2.  Setting up a UR robot for ur_robot_driver
    1. Prepare the robot
    2. Prepare the ROS PC 
      1. Extract Calibration Information
      2. Quick Start

 

By following those steps above, you will be able to use the rqt joint trajectory controller GUI, to remotely control the real robot!

 

 

 

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