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USB Sensors mess with each other, ROS Ubuntu Mate

asked 2017-06-15 03:33:31 -0500

andreasvo gravatar image

Hi,

Im working with an autonomous sailboat with a raspberry pi 3 that uses these sensors:

Gill Ultrasonic Windsensor

MTi-G xsesnsor (gyro and gps data)

Im having an issue related to the c++ program that connects my software to the wind sensor. The problem is that the wind sensor will connect to usb1 staticly (using serial) in which it will be pure luck that this is the correct usb as it is dynamically assigned when inserted. The xsensor on the other hand will find itself with the driver I got from ROS git rep. Problem occurs when the wind sensor driver will try to use the same USBx as the xsens driver, resulting in the xsens crashing.

Is there a way to physically assign say, USB0 to always be the bottom right usb on the raspberry pi? and if so how?

I've tried to google this alot without any good results.

I'm using Ubuntu mate for ROS by the way.

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answered 2017-06-15 04:54:23 -0500

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updated 2017-06-15 04:57:17 -0500

Not really a ROS problem, but I would suggest you look into udev and setting up some rules for your USB devices so that they are always assigned a unique symlink.

That way you could set things up so your wind sensor gets a device file such as: /dev/sensors/wind_sensor, and your X-sens: /dev/sensors/xsens (these are obviously examples, you can do whatever you want).

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Thank you gvdhoorn!

udev is just what I was looking for.

Yes, not a ROS problem at all. Just wanted to hear here first incase ROS had any features for this that I didn't know about.

andreasvo gravatar image andreasvo  ( 2017-06-15 05:12:44 -0500 )edit

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