| ROS Resources: Documentation | Support | Discussion Forum | Index | Service Status | ros @ Robotics Stack Exchange |
I have a benewake CE-30C Lidar. Link I can see how to interface Rp-lidar or Velodyne Lidars, but I can't find much support for this. Can somebody guide me as to how to get the point cloud data that is readable by ROS.
Unless someone else already did the work for you, you'll probably have to write a ROS driver for this device.
Luckily the manual you linked has this to say about the SDK:
SDK is mainly used to develop applications of this LiDAR on Linux system by using C/C++, [..]
so Linux support seems to be ok (or at least: the SDK is usable on Linux).
If the device is more like a Laser Scanner (ie: outputs something akin to scans), you could perhaps use the Velodyne drivers as inspiration.
If it's more like a "traditional" 3D depth camera (ie: outputs point clouds directly), then it might perhaps make more sense to look at the ROS drivers for various depth cameras.
I have found a driver on Github Zlite/benewake There are no tutorials, could you explain how to view this data in Rviz and use it for generating a map?
There are no tutorials, could you explain how to view this data in Rviz and use it for generating a map?
I'm afraid I won't have time for that.
I can only suggest to ask the original author how to use his nodes, and to look up the tutorials on how to visualise things in RViz.
Asked: 2018-08-25 02:01:54 -0500
Seen: 946 times
Last updated: Aug 25 '18
ROS Answers is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.
