ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Interfacing laser scanners with ROS

Now that we've discussed the simulation of the laser scanner, let's see how to interface real sensors with ROS.

Here are some links to guide you with setting up Hokuyo and SICK laser scanners in ROS. The complete installation instructions is available.

Hokuyo sensors: http://wiki.ros.org/hokuyo_node

SICK lasers: http://wiki.ros.org/sick_tim

You can install Hokuyo drivers from binary packages using the following commands:

Hokuyo laser scanners.

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-hokuyo3d

SICK laser scanners.

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-sick-tim ros-kinetic-lms1xx