ikh-innovation/canbus_in_ros

can_to_ros

can_to_ros is a ROS package that reads CAN bus messages from provided csv file or in real time, decode the messages, publish them to ROS topics, and record the published messages.

Prerequisites

ROS melodic

Example

1.Create a ROS Workspace

$ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
$ cd ~/catkin_ws/
$ catkin_make

2.Clone the repos.

Cloning the ROS package

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src/
$ git clone https://github.com/SafwanElmadani/canbus_in_ros.git

3.Build the WS

$ cd ~/catkin_ws
$ catkin_make

4.Source your enviroment:

$source ./devel/setup.bash

Publishing from a CSV file

Use roslaunch to start publishing:

$roslaunch canbus_in_ros start_can_decoding.launch can_path:=/path/to/file.csv bag_name:= name_of_the_bag_file.

The generated bag file can be found inside the home directory.