ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Sweep LIDAR

The Sweep 360-degree rotating LIDAR (http://scanse.io/) has a range of 40 meters. Compared to high-end LIDARs such as Velodyne, it is very cheap and good for research and hobby projects:

Figure 28: Sweep LIDAR

There is a good ROS interface available for this sensor. Here's the link to the Sweep sensor ROS package: https://github.com/scanse/sweep-ros. Before building the package, you need to install some dependencies:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions ros-kinetic-pointcloud-to-laserscan

Now you can simply copy the sweep-ros package to your Catkin workspace and build it using the catkin_make command.

After building ...