Use of Ubuntu RPLIDAR A2

Rplidar is a low-cost 2D LIDAR solution developed by Robopeak Team,slamtec Corporation. It can scan the 360° environment within a 6 degree radius. Rplidar's output is ideal for building maps, doing slam, or building 3D models.

First you have to have a workspace, for example:

How to build a Rplidar Ros package
> 1) Clone this project to Catkin's workspace src folderHttps://github.com/robopeak/rplidar_ros (This is)
> 2) Run Catkin_make to build Rplidarnode and Rplidarnodeclient
　　
How to run the Rplidar Ros package

Check the permissions of the Rplidar serial port:

Ls-l/dev | grep TTYUSB

Add Write permission: (e.g./dev/ttyusb0)

sudo chmod 666/dev/ttyusb0

There are two ways to run the Rplidar Ros package
I. Running Rplidar nodes and views in Rviz

roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar.launch

should be able to see the Rplidar scan results in the Rviz.
ii. Running Rplidar node and view

roslaunch rplidar_ros rplidar.launch

rosrun rplidar_ros rplidarnodeclient

you should see the Rplidar scan results in the console

Use of Ubuntu RPLIDAR A2