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

[Frederick.Pauling at csiro.au]

Hi Marti,

I missed your reply last week, apologies.
Thank you for the link to iri_ros_pkg. I had found this earlier, but I was looking for a more stand-alone driver (similar to the current hokuyo_node).
I found the "urgwidget" library on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/urgwidget/, which is actively maintained by at least one Hokuyo employee. This implements SCIP2.2 in a very light-weight C library. There is no ROS-wrapper for it yet.

Fred Pauling

Software Engineer - Robotics
ICT Centre Autonomous Systems Lab
CSIRO

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From: Martí Morta <mmorta at iri.upc.edu<mailto:mmorta at iri.upc.edu>>
Reply-To: User discussions <ros-users at code.ros.org<mailto:ros-users at code.ros.org>>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:28:32 +1100
To: "ros-users at code.ros.org<mailto:ros-users at code.ros.org>" <ros-users at code.ros.org<mailto:ros-users at code.ros.org>>
Subject: Re: [ros-users] Driver for new Hokuyo UTM-30LX-EW lasers?

Hi,
I am updating the IRI driver [1] for the Hokuyo Lasers in order to be used with the SCIP2.2 protocol and get the multiecho values in the UTM-30LX-EW and the UXM-30LX-E
At the moment I am working with the non-ROS version of the driver, as soon as I get this running I will wrap it in our ROS node [2].

I'll tell you when It will be ready.

Kind regards,
Martí Morta

[1] http://wikiri.upc.es/index.php/Hokuyo_Laser_driver
[2] <https://devel.iri.upc.edu/pub/labrobotica/ros/iri-ros-pkg/stacks/iri_common_drivers/trunk/iri_hokuyo_laser/> http://www.ros.org/wiki/iri_hokuyo_laser



> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Fred Pauling

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Martí Morta Garriga. Support Engineer.
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (UPC-CSIC)