Announcing denso, a ROS I/F for industrial arms from Denso

ByRyosuke Tajima

Announcing denso, a ROS I/F for industrial arms from Denso

From ros-users.

We’re happy to announce denso, a ROS/MoveIt! interface for industrial manipulators from Denso Wave Inc.

http://wiki.ros.org/densowave

Key factors:

• Currently works with VS-060, vertical multi-joint robot from Denso.
• ROS communicates using UDP-based standardized protocol (ORiN) to the embedded controller computer that has been achieving industry-proven reliability. It also has mechanism to detect faulty commands. That said as a whole the system maintains the same level of safeness with their commercial product setting.
• However ROS interface is still experimental and feedback is highly appreciated. Please try out manipulation in RViz without the real robot.
• Work done by JSK lab at U-Tokyo. Maintenance by Tokyo Opensource Robotics Kyokai Association

Lastly, credit goes to Denso who provides the robot’s model to the opensource community.

Kei Okada, Ryohei Ueda

1/5/2014) Package is renamed to denso from densowave.