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at-wat / hokuyo3d

A ROS driver node for VSSP protocol compliant HOKUYO 3D LIDARs
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Using Velodyne Package with Hokoyu3d Lidar #38

Closed BakhtawarRehman closed 6 years ago

BakhtawarRehman commented 6 years ago

Hello, Is it possible to use velodyne mapping algorithms for Hokuyo3d? E.g: loam_velodyne or blam?

at-wat commented 6 years ago

It depends on the algorithm, and I don't know these Velodyne specific packages.

As you know, Velodyne has vertical laser array on the horizontal scanner. Hokuyo YVT series has one laser on the vertical scanner on the horizontal scanner. If these packages depend on the scanning method, they will never work well. If they just need 3-D pointcloud, they should work in some part.

I have made a working demo of hokuyo3d and cartographer_ros (https://github.com/at-wat/cartographer_hokuyo3d/). This works.