I created ticket
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4138 in
response to this.
The correct answer is that the driver should be able to tolerate the
laser not being up right away or the laser going down for a while.
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:49 +0000, Renato Samperio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My SICK LMS 200, requires around 25 seconds for being initialised.
> Currently the sicklms node that can be found in sicktoolbox_wrapper
> (and by following the tutorials) generates an error as there is not
> enough time for showing a green led on.
>
> I have been looking around the Sick LIDAR Matlab/C++ Toolbox, and I am
> not sure whether it is a good idea to modify the option
> DEFAULT_SICK_LMS_SICK_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT for increasing the waiting time
> from all sensor messages.
>
> Moreover, I updated the file: `rospack find
> sicktoolbox_wrapper`/ros/sicklms/sicklms.cpp for waiting 20 seconds
> and call again sensor initalisation with something like this:
>
> try{
> sick_lms.Initialize(desired_baud); //desired_baud=38400
> }
> catch (...)
> {
> int time_wait=20;
> if(!sick_lms.IsInitialized()){
> sleep(time_wait);
> sick_lms.Initialize(desired_baud); //desired_baud=38400
> }
>
>
> After doind this the node works. However, does anyone has a better
> idea of how to correct such issue?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Renato.
>
>
>
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