[ros-users] Driver for new Hokuyo UTM-30LX-EW lasers?

[Frederick.Pauling at csiro.au]

Thanks Geoff,

I'll take a look at the library.

Cheers!

Fred Pauling 



On 8/02/12 2:29 PM, "Geoffrey Biggs" <geoffrey.biggs at aist.go.jp> wrote:

>On 08/02/12 12:43, Frederick.Pauling at csiro.au wrote:
>> The UTM-30LX-EW (http://www.autonomoustuff.com/hokuyo-utm-30lx-ew.html)
>> has multi-echo capability, but this requires the driver to implement the
>> new SCIP 2.2 protocol. Does anyone have a driver for this laser, or
>>plans
>> to write one? It would seem logical to extend the hokuyo_node package
>> somehow.
>
>The HokuyoAIST library (http://gbiggs.github.com/hokuyoaist/) has had
>support for SCIP 2.2, including multi-echo support, for a year or so. It
>was tested on the UXM-30LX-EW, but as the protocol is the same, it
>should all work on the UTM-30LX-EW as well. See
>Sensor::set_multiecho_mode().
>
>The library is currently being rewritten to use Boost ASIO. It's
>perfectly usable now, though; you just need to install an extra
>dependency.
>
>Unfortunately, I don't think there's a ROS node for it.
>
>Geoff
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