Hello,

I happen to have at my hands a ranger finder lms500 and i want to use  the myrobotlab program to view its output, i know i can do that with SOPAS but my main goal is puting the laser on a P3-AT and then doing SLAM.
Can anyone help me with that? or show the way into how to do it on myrobotlab.
Thank you.

GroG

10 years ago

Hello and Welcome mhoxha,

Thanks for posting.  

Are you a software or electrical engineer?  Are you comfortable in Java development?  Do you have any tests which you can do to verify the unit is working properly ?

What is SOPAS?  

I've seen P3-ATs before

Do you currently have access to a P3-AT ?

We would like to see your bot doing SLAM too :)

I've been looking at RGBD Slam - since its come a long way and kinects are so prevelent 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMLwjo80WzI

If you know your unit is working I would recommend just trying the Lidar service in MRL.  
I'd be very suprised if it worked immediately (and by work I mean returned data)

in python this would be :

lidar = Runtime.start("lidar", "LIDAR")

# connect to the appropriate serial port
# Linux notation
 
lidar01.connect("dev/lidar01"); 
 
# or lidar01.connect("COM9"); on windows..
 
# send a command
# this sets the mode to a spread of 
# 180 degrees with readings every
# 0.5 degrees
lidar01.setMode(180, 0.5f)
 
 
lidar01.singleScan()
 
This service was created by another MRLian, but it was for a SICK LMS 200.  I can see some initialization byte streams which may (or may not) be appropriate for a LMS 500
 
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