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blevruz
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CANopen integration

Hello,

I've been working on an integration of the CANopen protocol (as implemented by Embedded Office's CANopen Stack) with VESC, on this github repository.

I am new to this project, and would be grateful for feedback and advice on what to do before opening a pull request!

The current objective list is:

  1. Add build options for using canopen-stack (done)
  2. Add canopen-stack drivers (done)
  3. Allocate memory for, and build an object dictionary (done, 256 3-word-long entries starting at 0x08080000 currently)
  4. Add a canopen-stack thread (repurposed the can read thread for this)
  5. Test canopen-stack T- and R-Pdo (done)
  6. Test canopen-stack Sdo
  7. Implement an example motor setup (work in progress)

My repository contains a simplistic test application that I will flesh out as features become usable.

Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

benjamin
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Nice work, many people have been asking about CANopen support. I think this might be better as a VESC Package:

https://github.com/vedderb/vesc_pkg

VESC Packages are a new feature that I'm working on that allows making an independent module that can be installed on the firmware during runtime. I think everything you need is already in place except that I should add a can-mode that disables the existing can-decoding and just relies on the custom handling. I will that can-mode asap.

blevruz
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Thanks for the feedback!

I have no experience with LISP, this would be a good learning opportunity. I'll try to make a package once the C version is working well enough for my project.

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I was thinking of a C version as a compiled package, it is probably difficult to translate that library to lisp.

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I am looking for a best way to utilize multiple VESC device for ros2_control, using the actuator_interface or the system_interface , instead of implementing the VESC can protocol or UART protocol, it looks to like the fastest and more robust way is to implement canopen on VESC controller and use  ros2_canopen  leveraging on blevruz work, is there any other effort in this direction ?