ROS subscriber or action listener node on UR for geometry msg twist

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My goal is to make the UR3e react to the movement of a MPU9250 (gyroscop, accelerometer and magnetometer hooked up to an arduino) If possible I would like the robots tool center point to mimic the motion of the MPU9250 in 3D space. I do not have a Gripper or tool attached to the Robot, I would like to move the position and orientation of the wrist though.

I followed enough tutorials to be able to run a ROS node on the Arduino to process data from the gyroscope and send TF data or gemometry_msgs to Turtlesim. (The turtle moves when the gyroscop is moved)

I have installed ROS melodic, RosIndustrial and the Universal_Robots_ROS_Driver driver. The github instructions for establishing communication via ethernet worked. (ROS can “ping” the robot) Unfortunately I have no idea how to translate the 2D simulation into actual robot movements.

  • How do I write a basic subscriber node or action listener to run on the UR? (Are there any tutorials or demos about this? )
  • Do I need some special algorythms to translate geometry_msgs to the pose of the UR?
  • Are there some good functions, libraries or frameworks for me to look into?

I’m a s student (Junior) working on my bachelors degree in software engineering. This project is part of my internship with a robotics departement in an actual company. I’m new to ROS and this is my first time working with an UR robot. I would ask my co workers if they had experience working with UR and ROS.

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The interesting part is to generate motion commands from this TF data. From your generated pose you would have to derive a valid joint command (as we are currently only supporting commands in joint space) and send this to the robot.

However, as we use ROS-Control in the driver you can use other ROS-Controllers with the driver, as well. For instance, there is the cartesian_controllers package maintained by a colleague which does exactly that. You would have to add this package to your workspace, recompile and setup the respective controllers as explained in the package’s documentation.

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