ROS node and test application for RPLIDAR

Visit following Website for more details about RPLIDAR:

rplidar roswiki: http://wiki.ros.org/rplidar

rplidar HomePage: http://www.slamtec.com/en/Lidar

rplidar SDK: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_sdk

rplidar Tutorial: https://github.com/robopeak/rplidar_ros/wiki

1) Clone this project to your catkin's workspace src folder
2) Running catkin_make to build rplidarNode and rplidarNodeClient

There're two ways to run rplidar ros package

roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar.launch (for RPLIDAR A1/A2) or roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar_a3.launch (for RPLIDAR A3)

You should see rplidar's scan result in the rviz.

roslaunch rplidar_ros rplidar.launch (for RPLIDAR A1/A2) or roslaunch rplidar_ros rplidar_a3.launch (for RPLIDAR A3)

rosrun rplidar_ros rplidarNodeClient

You should see rplidar's scan result in the console

Notice: the different is serial_baudrate between A1/A2 and A3

RPLidar frame must be broadcasted according to picture shown in rplidar-frame.png