This is the ROS driver for Robotiq Hand-E gripper. We assuming that the gripper is mounted on an UR robot, and the PC is connected with UR through Ethernet cable. You need to properly configure your networks such that PC and Robot can ping each other.
Simply clone this package to your ROS catkin src folder then build the catkin workspace.
cd ~/your_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/macs-lab/robotiq_hande_ros_driver.git
cd ..
catkin_make
Create or modify the existing launch file based on your needs.
- robot_ip: the IP address of your UR robot
Then start the driver by running the launch file. The gripper is controlled using ROS service.
Services allows the driver to send feedback when the finger action completes. This is useful when you want the program to wait until gripper complete its movement. See test.py
for example usage.
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