moteus has had python bindings for a long time, and had a half-completed CAN parser library in the pi3hat repo, but there has never been great support for developing in C++. No longer!
Now, in the mjbots/moteus repository, there are C++ bindings that can be used for applications that allows full control over all of the capabilities of any moteus controller using a fdcanusb, socketcan, (or the pi3hat). It is modeled after the python library, so simple cases look about the same:
#include "moteus.h"
// ....
mjbots::moteus::Controller c;
mjbots::moteus::PositionMode::Command command;
command.position = 0.5;
const auto maybe_result = c.SetPosition(command);
std::cout << "Position: " << (maybe_result ? maybe_result->values.position : 0.0) << "\n";
I've got two videos showing first how to use it in a 1 controller example, and second in an example with 2 controllers at the same time:
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