- Five degrees of freedom
- Support for Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Reach of 550 millimeters
- Payload of 150 grams
The Reactorx 200 Robotic Arm belongs to a new family of arms from Interbotix, featuring the DYNAMIXEL X Series Smart Servo Motors. These actuators offer higher torque, more efficient heat dissipation, and better durability, all in a smaller form factor than previous DYNAMIXEL servos. The DYNAMIXEL XM 430 W350T and DYNAMIXEL XL430 W250T servos offer high resolution of 4096 positions and user definable PID parameters. Temperature monitoring, positional feedback, voltage levels, load, and compliance settings are all accessible to the user. The ReactorX 200 is powered by the Robotis DYNAMIXEL U2D2, which allows easy access to the DYNAMIXEL Wizard software as well as ROS. It offers five degrees of freedom and a full 360 degree rotation.
ROS packages for Kinetic and Melodic on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 and 18.04 make it easy to get started with the ReactorX 200 arm. These packages include full meshes and URDFs (including accurate inertial models for the links), a driver node that controls the physical robot arm and publishes joint states, as well as gazebo and moveit support. Examples are also included to demonstrate how the core packages work.
The ReactorX 200 Robot Arm has a 55cm horizontal reach from the center of the base to the gripper, with a total span of 110cm. Its working payload is 150g. Working payload is the weight which the arm should not exceed under normal working circumstances, and is measured by the arms ability to repeatedly lift an object at roughly half extension without failure. While the ReactorX 200 can lift more than 150g, it is not recommended to exceed this number.
