Drivers for the Phidgets devices. This Catkin metapackage includes:
-
phidgets_api: a package which downloads and builds the Phidgets C API from phidgets.com (as an external project). It also implements a C++ wrapper for the C API, providing a base Phidget class and various inherited classes for different phidget devices. -
Two packages exposing the functionality of specific phidgets devices using the ROS API:
phidgets_imuandphidgets_ir.
Make sure you have a working catkin workspace, as described at: http://www.ros.org/wiki/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace
Also make sure you have git installed:
sudo apt-get install git-core
Change directory to the source folder of your catkin workspace.
If, for instance, your workspace is ~/catkin_ws, make sure there is
a src/ folder within it, then execute:
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
Download the metapackage from the github repository (<ros_distro> may be groovy, hydro, indigo...):
git clone -b <ros_distro> https://github.com/ccny-ros-pkg/phidgets_drivers.git
Install dependencies using rosdep:
rosdep install phidgets_drivers
Alternatively, if rosdep does not work, install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
Compile your catkin workspace:
cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make
Make sure your catkin workspace has been successfully compiled. To set up the udev rules for the Phidgets USB devices, run the following commands:
cd ~/catkin_ws
sh src/phidgets_drivers/phidgets_api/share/setup-udev.sh
You will be prompted to type in your password.