NOTE: This repository is end-of-life and no longer maintained. The most current fork of this repo is here: https://github.com/SICKAG/sick_scan_xd

sick_tim

For documentation, please see sick_tim at the ROS wiki.

Setting up udev rules

Note: The following steps are only required when installing the package from source. When installing a binary debian package of sick_tim >= 0.0.14, the udev rules are set up automatically. Also, this is only required if connecting to the scanner via USB.

To give all members of the plugdev group write access to the Sick TiM devices, run the following commands from the root of the sick_tim repository:

sudo cp debian/udev /etc/udev/rules.d/81-sick-tim3xx.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

Make sure that your current user is a member of the plugdev group by running groups. If not, add the user to the group and login again.

Now unplug your USB cable and plug it in again. This will allow you to communicate with the laser scanner without running the node as root and fix the following error:

LIBUSB - Cannot open device (permission denied?); please read sick_tim/README.md

Travis - Continuous Integration

Indigo

ROS Buildfarm

	binary deb	source deb	devel	doc
indigo
kinetic
lunar
melodic

Changelog for package sick_tim

0.0.18 (2023-05-02)

• Add Dockerfile-noetic
• Fix Dockerfile-kinetic
• README: Change http -> https
• Update Dockerfiles to new ros:*-ros-core images
• Set cmake_policy CMP0048 to fix warning
• Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.17 (2020-05-25)

• Switch to non-deprecated node in launch files The state_publisher node is deprecated in Kinetic and was removed in Noetic.
• Avoid compilation warning in libusb on noetic
• Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.16 (2019-05-06)

• travis CI: Switch to Docker
• Avoid runtime error if ROS time is 0 See #76
• Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.15 (2019-03-04)

• Add libusb-1.0-dev to build_export_depend (#75)
• Contributors: Alex Moriarty

0.0.14 (2019-01-09)

• Install udev rules during binary package installation
• TiM551/TiM571: Fix HEADER_FIELDS calculation when device name is not set Fixes #72.
• sick_mrs1000: Fix missing cloud time stamp (#69) Fixes #68.
• Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.13 (2018-05-25)

• First release into melodic
• Fix mrs1000 frame_id parameter (#61) If frame_id parameter was defined to something other than "laser", the node would not publish the /scan topic and the /cloud header.frame_id would always be "laser" even if a different one was defined. This fixes both issues.
• Add min/max angle and range parameters to URDF macros (#60)
• catkin test-flag around [roslaunch_add_file_check]{.title-ref} (#59) Eval [CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING]{.title-ref} prior to call [roslaunch_add_file_check]{.title-ref} to ensure the function is defined.
• Contributors: Jacob Perron, Jeremie Deray, Patrick Hussey

0.0.12 (2018-01-31)

• Fix memory leak (#56) s should be deleted before returning.
• mrs1000: Make output REP-117 compliant (invalid = +inf) This is a port of e964fb4c to the MRS-1000.
• sick mrs1000 driver (#55) This commit adds SICK MRS-1000 support. The initialization of the device has to be different, due to that I have made the methods for initialization virtual and now the mrs1000 driver runs different init code. Also the support for PointCloud2 is new.
• Contributors: Sebastian Pütz, Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Günther

0.0.11 (2017-12-21)

• Make output REP-117 compliant (#54) The laser scan topic now encodes invalid measurements as +inf instead of 0. This makes costmap2d treat all invalid measurements as out of range measurements and correctly clearing obstacles even when there is no valid measurement behind. This can lead to some obstacles being incorrectly cleared (when the "0" returne by the SICK TiM actually means "invalid measurement" or "too close to measure" instead of "out of range"), but this happens much less frequently in practice than the problem of non-cleared obstacles.
• .travis.yml: Add fix for travis-ci/travis-ci#8048
• Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.10 (2017-01-07)

• Automatically reboot scanner if it reports an error code. (#44)
• Update strtok logic. Fixes #42 (#43)
• Contributors: Derek King, Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Guenther

0.0.9 (2016-09-09)

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