Summary
TurtleBot comes with its own 3D vision system that is a low-cost laser scanner. The Kinect, ASUS, PrimeSense, or RealSense devices can be mounted on the TurtleBot base and provide a 3D depth view of the environment. This chapter provided a comparison of these four types of sensors and identified the software that is needed to operate them as ROS components. We checked their operation by testing the sensor on TurtleBot in standalone mode. To use the devices, we can utilize Image Viewer or rviz to view image streams from the rgb or depth cameras.
For TurtleBot 3, the LDS sensor was described and ROS software and camera driver software was identified.
The primary objective is for TurtleBot to see its surroundings and be able to autonomously ...
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