For most of the cases you can just use usbreset from package usbutils, instead of this tool. If you have lsusb then it is likely that you have usbutils already installed on your device.

usb_reset

Linux commandline tool to reset a USB device

Usage

It resets a USB device based on its product_id:vendor_id pair.

# ./usb_reset 413c:2003
Product: Dell USB Keyboard (length: 17)
Manufacturer: Dell (length: 4)
Resetting this device ...
Finished.
#

You can also provide the product name and manufacturer name. In this case, this program will only reset the device when both of the strings does not match what the USB device returns.

# ./usb_reset 413c:2003 "Dell USB Keyboard" Dell
#

(No output since it did nothing. However when the USB device does not work properly, usually it cannot return the correct strings, in this case it will be resetted.)

Auto reset a USB device when it stops working

I personally use it in a loop to reset a USB device that often stops working and requires me to unplug and plug it back.

#!/bin/sh

a="0"
while [ "$a" -eq "0" ]
do
    ./usb_reset [YOUR PRODUCT_ID:VENDOR_ID PAIR] [YOUR PRODUCT_NAME] [YOUR MANUFACTURER_NAME]
    a="$?"
    sleep 5
done

echo Last returned "$a"

Compile

First of all, install libusb header files. On Debian based systems the command can be:

apt list libusb-1.0-0-dev

Compile:

g++ usb_reset.cpp -o usb_reset -lusb-1.0

License

GNU GPL v3.0