Lidar Lite V3 ROS

Requirements:

Aruino UNO or better and a PC with ROS.

Instructions

1. Install the following libraries:

• LIDAR-Lite_v3 Library.
• The ROS serial library (ros_lib).

2. Open the lidar-lite-v3-ros.ino file in Arduino IDE and program the Arduino.

3. Connect the Lidar Lite to the Arduino using the example configuration shown on page 3 of the manual.

4. Launch a roscore

roscore

5. Run the rosserial client application that forwards your Arduino messages to the rest of ROS. Make sure to use the correct serial port:

rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyUSB0