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Package Summary

This package contains drivers for Bosch BMA180 accelerometers. The BMA180 is a 3 axis sensor with configurable sensitivity ranges and event interrupts. As of 2/2012, the driver requires that the devices be connected to the host computer with a Sub20 interface device.

• Author: Lukas Marti, Nikhil Deshpande, Philip Roan (Maintained by Philip Roan)
• License: BSD
• Repository: bosch-ros-pkg
• Source: svn https://bosch-ros-pkg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bosch-ros-pkg/trunk/stacks/bosch_drivers/bma180

Nodes

bma180_node

The bma180_node interfaces with Bosch Sensortec BMA180 3-axis accelerometer. The driver requires an Xdimax SUB-20 Device to communicate with the SPI interface of the BMA180.

Published Topics

~<name>/bma180 (bma180/bma180meas)

• acceleration data in [g] for x, y, z axis

Parameters

~max_acc_g (double, default: 16)

• maximum measurable acceleration in g

~bandwidth_Hz (double, default: 300)

• sensor filter bandwidth

~rate_Hz (double, default: 100)

• sampling rate of sensor

~calibrate (boolean, default: false)

• run through an initial calibration procedure