paulmis / beepboop3000

SLAM-based, autonomous vehicle prototype. The RBG camera & lidar-based bb3 will automatically execute tasks in warehouse-like environments.
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Install and configure the YDLIDAR ros2 package #2

Closed paulmis closed 2 years ago

paulmis commented 3 years ago

Install the ros2 package for the YDLIDAR X4 from https://github.com/YDLIDAR/ydlidar_ros2_driver and configure it for our lidar. Its state should be toggleable by the /stop_scan and /start_scan topics, and the resulting 2D point cloud is published on /scan.

Since we want our robot to be aware of its surroundings, we'll be using one of the publically available ros2 SLAM packages, probably slam_toolbox since it seems to be the best one at the moment. Have a read here: https://github.com/SteveMacenski/slam_toolbox