Robotiq Ethercat

This package provides an interface for interfacing with an ethercat network. With the current architecture, a single process is associated with a single network and that process must be aware of all slaves it will communicate with.

Maintainer

• Jean-Philippe Roberge (ros@robotiq.com)

Common Issues

Please note:

• VMs probably won’t work.
• You need a dedicated ethernet card for the EtherCAT network. I haven’t had luck using eth0.
• If you’re running Ubuntu, you’ll probably need to run sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep on the robotiq_2f_gripper_ethercat_node executable before it will work. Otherwise you’ll get a “Could not initialize SOEM” error. This executable can be found under the same package name in your /devel/ directory.