I am the developer and maintainer for Mitsubishi Electric ROS2 Driver.
In our efforts to continue our commitment to democratize MELFA robots and participate in Open-Source robotics, I would like to start an open discussion with the community. Any ROS and open-source robotics topics are welcomed.
I would like to start the ball rolling with a few topics:
what kind of existing functionality would you like to see in our MELFA ROS2 Driver?
In the coming months, I will be releasing repositories with tutorials & documentation for MELSEC Programmable Logic Controller ROS2 compatibility and GOT-Human Machine Interface ROS2 compatibility via the MELFA ROS2 Driver. If there’s a Mitsubishi Electric product that you want to use for your ROS2 project, feel free to reply as well or contact me directly.
Please do not request for a return of the Lancer Evo
If you have another topic that you would like to discuss, feel free to start a discussion in this thread. If you prefer to contact me directly, you can send me an email at muyao.liu@asia.meap.com
RV-2AJ reached end-of-life more than 10 years ago and it has passed the 7-year post-EOL support period. As such, we will not support RV-2AJ.
maybe consider upgrading to the RV-4FRL or RV-2FR? It is part of our tier 1 support list together with 7 other robots. It will continue to receive hardware and software support/updates for at least the next 10 years.
According to this manual on pdf page 100 or document page 3-87, RV-2AJ along with 20+ legacy robots can be controlled using “Real Time External Control”. the melfa_driver package, which uses ros2_control, wraps the “Real Time External Control” API which “may” be usable with these robots in the manual. I do not know if it will work as I do not have access to these robots.
We do not officially support legacy robots and have no plans to do so, but we do not prevent users to use our open-source software to extend the life of legacy robots. Our ROS2 driver is released under Apache 2.0.
