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Material used for learning ROS and robotics, as part of the Autonomous Systems course at Instituto Superior Tecnico
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sicktoolbox_wrapper : installation #9

Open sickROS opened 7 years ago

sickROS commented 7 years ago

We are having trouble with the sick toolbox installation. We are following this site http://wiki.ros.org/sicktoolbox_wrapper/Tutorials/UsingTheSicklms#Compiling and it says that we must connect the laser via USB to our computer. What can we do without the device?

oscar-lima commented 7 years ago

Hello, I advice you to use hokuyo laser scanner. Is easier. If you want to test stuff without the real sensor then the simulation is the only option (check lab 1)

sickROS commented 7 years ago

Is it easier to use Hokuyo even with the off-board LRF project?

oscar-lima commented 7 years ago

Yes ; )

sickROS commented 7 years ago

We are going through lab 1 again but it seems there is something missing when you say "open rviz". Can you please tell us the commands to run? Because we run 'rviz', the app opens but an error appears in Global Status (Fixed Frame [map] does not exist).

oscar-lima commented 7 years ago

Open rviz: rosrun rviz rviz

Expand global options and select fixed frame as odom (assumig that you are working with the pioneer)

oscar-lima commented 7 years ago

Also please create a new issue next time if it’s not related to what is being discussed in this thread