fbgs_sensor

ROS interface for Illumisense (FBGS) software

This is a very simple example which creates an fbgs_sensor_node that currently only broadcast strain and wavelength measurements from FBGS

Dependencies

• ROS
• Illumisense (Windows Only Currently)

Installation

Clone project into catkin workspace and build the project.

git clone https://github.com/ScottyChung/fbgs_sensor
catkin build fbgs_sensor

Getting Started

The Illumisense software has a setting to stream measurements over TCP. Ensure this streaming is enabled on the measurement workstation. Modify the host_computer variable in src/fbgs_sensing_node.py to match the measurment workstation. Running the following command should start the node.

rosrun fbgs_sensing fbgs_sensing_node.py

This should create a node /fbgs_sensor that is broadcasting the topic /fbgs_strain

TODO

* Explain more in readme * Handle multiple channels and sensors (not sure how the strain is reported with multi-channels)

• Potentially add to ROS or cisstsaw repository
• Create topics for wavelength, power, other info
• Add CPP example (maybe)
• Add UI (maybe)