ROS packages for SICK line guidance sensors. This driver provides the measurement data as PointCloud2. The software is hosted under https://github.com/SICKAG/sick_line_guidance

The package supports ROS distributions kinetic and melodic

Devices Supported

The driver supports at least the devices listed below and has also been tested with these devices:

Installation from sources

The driver is constantly being further developed, so we recommend that you check out and compile the software from the devel branch of the repository. The following actions are necessary for this:

source /opt/ros/<rosdistro>/setup.bash
mkdir -p ~/ros_catkin_ws/src/
cd ~/ros_catkin_ws/src/
git clone -b devel --single-branch git://github.com/SICKAG/sick_line_guidance.git
cd ..
catkin_make
source ~/ros_catkin_ws/install/setup.bash

First steps

Following the steps described in section "starting" under https://github.com/SICKAG/sick_line_guidance

Troubleshooting

Following the steps described in section "Troubleshooting and diagnostics" under https://github.com/SICKAG/sick_line_guidance

Support

• In case of technical support please open a new issue. Under https://github.com/SICKAG/sick_line_guidance/issues. For optimal support, add the following information to your request:

  1. Line guidance model name,
  2. Ros node startup log,
  3. Sopas file of your device configuration.

     The instructions at http://sickusablog.com/create-and-download-a-sopas-file/ show how to create the Sopas file.

• In case of application support please use https://supportportal.sick.com.