jdrew1303 / ros_duckie

An educational self driving car with ROS based on the Duckiebot
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Add support for RP-Lidar scan data #15

Open jdrew1303 opened 5 years ago

jdrew1303 commented 5 years ago

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RP-Lidar is a cheap lidar unit that connects through serial or the included USB. This allows for testing out algorithms and approaches the require lidar data.

Add a node that exports the lidars scan data in a sensor_msgs/LaserScan message.

Take a look at adding the prebuild node available here: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros