ROS node and test application for RPLIDAR
Visit following Website for more details about RPLIDAR:
rplidar roswiki: http://wiki.ros.org/rplidar
rplidar HomePage: http://www.slamtec.com/en/Lidar
rplidar Tutorial: https://github.com/robopeak/rplidar_ros/wiki
Read and write permission of the USB port is needed.
sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0
1) Clone this project to your catkin's workspace src folder
2) Running catkin_make to build rplidarNode and rplidarNodeClient
There're two ways to run rplidar ros package
roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar.launch
You should see rplidar's scan result in the rviz.
roslaunch rplidar_ros rplidar.launch
rosrun rplidar_ros rplidarNodeClient
You should see rplidar's scan result in the console
RPLidar frame must be broadcasted according to picture shown in rplidar-frame.png