Hi Aaron -
Do you happen to know if your adapted driver would work with the PLS101? We
have a few that it would be nice to get working in ROS.

-Dan

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Aaron Martinez Romero <
aaronmartinezromero@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I finished my adaption of the driver LMS200 of PlayerStage, to use
> with the Laser PLS200-212.
>
> First I modify the driver sicklms200 for use with the laser pls200 in
> Player, and later I create a "driver/node" for ROS, and Works!!!!!
>
> I attached a image using the laser in Player with playerv, and ROS with
> Rviz.....
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2548197/pls200_ros_player.jpeg
>
> Best regards...
>
>
> 2010/10/25 Aaron Martinez Romero <aaronmartinezromero@gmail.com>
>
> Hi Blaise, thanks for respond.
>>
>> I saw the documentation of sicktoolbox and my laser model, is not
>> supported.
>>
>> I think that is a lot of work to modify the sicktoolbox and
>> sicktoolbox_wrapper driver for the PLS200 Laser.
>>
>> I saw that the driver sick_lms400 is based in a driver of Player, I will
>> try use this method with my laser with the driver of Player that I modified.
>>
>> Best regards...
>>
>> 2010/10/25 Blaise Gassend <blaise@willowgarage.com>
>>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>>
>>> The current ROS LMS driver uses the sicktoolbox. So my first questions
>>> to you would be:
>>>
>>> - Does sicktoolbox support the PLS200-214? If it does, then tweaking
>>> the sicktoolbox_wrapper driver should allow the PLS to work. (It might
>>> also be necessary to update the version of sicktoolbox that is pulled
>>> by the sicktoolbox package.)
>>>
>>> - Can sicktoolbox be modified to support the PLS200-214? From what you
>>> write, you were easily able to upgrade the player driver to work with
>>> the PLS. If that's the case, I imagine that sicktoolbox can be
>>> similarly enhanced.
>>>
>>> If neither of those options works, it should be relatively easy to get
>>> the Player driver working with ROS. You just have to call ros_init to
>>> create a ROS node, advertise a topic, copy the data into a message,
>>> and publish that message. I imagine you may also have to take out some
>>> player-specific code.
>>>
>>> I think that there may also be some player to ROS bridges out there
>>> that might allow you to use the player driver directly.
>>>
>>> Blaise
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Aaron Martinez Romero
>>> <aaronmartinezromero@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Anybody know if this laser have a driver for ROS??? ( Laser sick
>>> PLS200-214
>>> > )
>>> >
>>> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2548197/PLS200-214-comp.jpg
>>> >
>>> > If not, Which is the steps for program a driver for this Laser.
>>> >
>>> > I modified the driver of the Player for the Laser LMS200 and the Laser
>>> is
>>> > working with Player,  Can I use this driver for ROS???
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> > Best regards...
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Atentamente,
>>> > Aarón Martínez Romero
>>> > Ingeniero en Informática
>>> > Tlf: 600 283 349
>>> > http://www.AaronMR.com
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>>
>>
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>> Atentamente,
>> Aarón Martínez Romero
>> Ingeniero en Informática
>> Tlf: 600 283 349
>> http://www.AaronMR.com
>>
>
>
>
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> Atentamente,
> Aarón Martínez Romero
> Ingeniero en Informática
> Tlf: 600 283 349
> http://www.AaronMR.com
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