How to use Xsens Mti-g-710 IMU driver for ROS melodic installed under Ubuntu 18.04? Here is a detailed description of the steps. The IMU here is a USB interface
1 installation
First plug in the USB port of the IMU
Command line operation
> lsusb
See if this USB is recognized
run
> dmesg
In the log, you can know the device name corresponding to the USB of the IMU / dev / ttyUSB *
Then restart Ubuntu
> reboot
After restart, modify permissions
> sudo chmod 777 /dev/ttyUSB*
Install ros driver
> sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-xsens-driver
2 Start
> roslaunch xsens_driver xsens_driver.launch
The specific location of the Launch file is: /opt/ros/melodic/share/xsens_driver/launch/xsens_driver.launch
- rostopic echo / imu
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Reference： http://wiki.ros.org/xsens_mti_driver
