ros-netft
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Driver or SDK
A native ROS driver for ATI Ethernet Net F/T and Ethernet Axia force/torque sensors, offering a standalone node for ROS 1 or ROS 2 and a ros2_control hardware plugin.
Made by netft.
Source on GitHub: github.com/netft/ros-netft (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 42372ca (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 42372ca (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Publishes calibrated wrench data in N and Nm as geometry_msgs/WrenchStamped messages.
- Reports connection, sequence, receive-rate and device-status diagnostics.
- Provides a software bias service to set the measurement zero, which should only be called when the sensor is in a safe state.
- Integrates with the standard ROS 2 force-torque sensor broadcaster through ros2_control.
- Adds an allow_bias parameter so deployments can disable the bias service for read-only use.
- Includes an access-control policy example for separating reader and operator identities under SROS2.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 42372ca.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- ATI Ethernet Net F/T or Ethernet Axia force/torque sensor reachable over the network; the ATI RDT interface permits only one UDP client at a time. Supported on ROS 2 Lyrical, Kilted, Jazzy, Humble and Rolling, and on ROS 1 Noetic from source.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 12 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 0.4.0 (8 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
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