SRI-FTSensor-SDK

• Tech Stack: C++
• Github URL: Project Link

Introduction

SRI FTSensor SDK is a cross-platform C++ wrapper of the FT Sensor made by Sunrise Instruments.

Dependencies

The SRI FTSensor SDK is a header-only library. But it depends on some Boost Libs.

• Boost.Asio Provide tcp, serial-port communication.

And also utilize some Boost header-only library, such as lexical_cast, format and string_algo.

If you are using Linux-like system (e.g. Ubuntu), Boost can be easily installed by package manager:

$ sudo apt install boost-all-dev

Compile

You can just put all the header file(in the include directory) into your own project, and compile it. In the root directory, there has an example to show how to use this SDK. After installing the Boost library, you can just type the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/thinkexist1989/SRI-FTSensor-SDK.git
$ cd SRI-FTSensor-SDK/
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make -j`nproc`
$ ./test #Run the example

Usage

1. Include the header files in your main.cpp

   #include <sri/ftsensor.hpp>
   #include <sri/commethernet.hpp> // connection to the tcp-type FTSensor
   
   #include <iostream>
   
   int main() {
       ...
   }

2. Initialize the communication to FTSensor(I has a tcp-type sensor with ip 192.168.1.108)

   SRI::CommEthernet* ce = new SRI::CommEthernet("192.168.1.108", 4008);

3. Initialize the Sensor with communication

   SRI::FTSensor sensor(ce);

4. Get or set some parameters

   IpAddr ip = sensor.getIpAddress();

5. Get real-time data from sensor

   auto rtData = sensor.getRealTimeDataOnce<float>(rtMode,rtDataValid);