Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

Installing the Astra–ROS driver

The complete instructions to set up the Astra-ROS driver in Ubuntu are mentioned at https://github.com/orbbec/ros_astra_camera and http://wiki.ros.org/Sensors/OrbbecAstra. After installing the driver, you can launch it using the following command:

    $ roslaunch astra_launch astra.launch  

You can also install the Astra driver from the ROS package repository. Here is the command to install those packages:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-astra-camera
    $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-astra-launch  

After installing these packages, you have to set the permission of the device in order to work with the device, as described at http://wiki.ros.org/astra_camera. You can check the ROS topics that are generated from ...