Re: [Playerstage-users] [Slightly OT:] Hokuyo laser scanners

[gbiggs <gb...@ki...>]

The hokuyo_aist driver should work fine with the UTM-30LX and any other
laser using the SCIP 2.0 protocol, although as far as I know it hasn't
been tested with that model laser (it definitely works with the 04 and
08 model scanners, including intensity data). This driver uses the new
ranger interface instead of the laser interface; if you need to put it
into something that requires the laser interface, use the rangertolaser
driver to translate the data. I recommend using the ranger interface in
your clients wherever possible, as the laser, sonar and ir interfaces
will (hopefully) be deprecated in the next version of Player.

The urg_laser driver may or may not work, and in either case, it is old
and will probably be removed in Player 2.2.

Geoff

Edward Rankin wrote:
> If you are looking for a Hokuyo laser scanner with similar capabilities
> as your LMS200, the UTM-30LX is probably the closest you can get. AFAIK,
> player's Hokuyo driver supports SCIP 2.0 so it should support all other
> Hokuyo lasers on the market at the momemnt. I do believe there are two
> versions of the driver in the package and I think the hokuyo_aist driver
> is the one to use.
> 
> The SICK LMS100/LMS111 is an interesting alternative, but it is a very
> new laser with no driver available yet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Edward
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Fred Labrosse <ff...@ab...
> <mailto:ff...@ab...>> wrote:
> 
>     All,
> 
>     We are on the market to buy new laser scanners.  So far, we've had
>     two LMS200
>     that haven't been used much and one has failed already and the other
>     one is
>     making noises similar to what the one that failed did before failing.
> 
>     I noticed that player supports the URG lasers from Hokuyo.  First,
>     can anyone
>     comment on their quality?  Second, and to make the post more
>     relevant to the
>     mailing list, are the other scanners from Hokuyo likely to work with
>     the URG
>     player driver?  If not, how much work would adapting the driver involve?
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Fred
> 
>     P.S.  The URG link in the Device column of the supported device in
>     the player
>     documentation is dead.
> 
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