Commanding Maxon EPOS Motor Controller(s) from MATLAB on Windows Platform

• A computer with Windows OS (Tested on Windows 10 Pro 1909)
• EPOS Studio (Tested with EPOS Studio 2.4)
• EPOS 4 Motor Controller (Tested with integrated motor - Exoskeleton Joint Actuator)
• MATLAB (Tested with R2019b)
• C Compiler (Tested with Microsoft Visual C 2019 (C) - Visual Studio 2019)

• Clone the repository git clone [email protected]:HERMESTeamEU/EPOS-Libraries-for-MATLAB-Windows.git
• Download and install the EPOS Studio - Download Now
• From C:\Program Files (x86)\maxon motor ag\EPOS IDX\EPOS4, find and copy the following files to ./EPOS-Libraries-for-MATLAB-Windows/Epos4Windows
  • Definitions.h
  • EposCmd.dll
  • EposCmd.lib
  • EposCmd64.dll
  • EposCmd64.lib
  • vxlapi.dll
  • vxlapi64.dll
• Start the MATLAB
• Open the ./EPOS-Libraries-for-MATLAB-Windows using MATLAB command window
• Run the following commands from MATLAB command window

  Clean
  Make
  

• Connect your EPOS 4 Motor Controller with USB
• Run the demo with the following command

  DemoEpos
  

• This library is original written by Eugenio Yime Rodriguez for EPOS 2 Motor Controllers
• This is a modified version by Iordanis Kostelidis for EPOS 4 Motor Controllers

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