Need suggestion regarding use of laserscanner or radar
Hi,
I am currently doing research in the field of Autonomous Navigation. Although this question might be slightly inappropriate for ROS forum, I decided to post it for getting some good suggestions. I have been using LMS Sick-200 laser-scanner for performing 2D detection of obstacles for velocity estimation. However, if I check the state-of-the-art technology, most of the vehicles (Vovlo, Google, Ford, Honda, etc) use RADAR sensors (both long and short range) for performing tasks like object detection, collision avoidance, velocity estimation, etc. Can anyone suggest whether it would be a better decision to shift to RADAR and whether I would get enough support in ROS and the available wrappers and drivers if I start using Radar instead of laser-scanners (like how it is available for SICK and Hokuyo lidars). Thanks
Did you find any resources on radars? It's been 3 years but radars are still not a part of ROS as they are used in the autonomous vechicles projects, and as you said, they are cheaper than a LIDAR