This section will guide you to instructions for installing the ROS Dynamixel motor stack as well as associated tutorials to operate the motors on ROS.

PREREQUISITE: This assumes:

1. instructions in hardware setup have been completed.
2. you are operating on a Ubuntu release with the appropriate distribution of ROS already installed

The following mirrors instructions found on the ROS.org page for the Dynamixel motor stack .

To download and install the motor stack, open a terminal and run,

sudo apt-get install ros-%ROS_DISTRO%-dynamixel-motor

where '%ROS_DISTRO%' is replaced with the relevant ROS distribution installed on the system (eg. kinetic).

Follow this tutorial provided for the ROS Dynamixel motor stack.

It will guide you through useful tools to communicate with connected motors as well as establish and use interfaces to operate motors from other programs (running as ROS nodes).

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