Changelog for package sick_tim

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 (#59) Eval CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING prior to call roslaunch_add_file_check 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)

timestamp diagnostics must take into account time_offset (#41)
Choose one of multiple connected scanners
Contributors: Christian Reinhard, procopiostein

0.0.8 (2016-04-25)

First release into kinetic
Remove dependency on driver_base The driver_base package is end-of-life, and we only needed it because of one enum.
Contributors: Martin Guenther

0.0.7 (2016-04-15)

Check for firmware versions without range output Closes #36 .
Use intensity param in TiM 551/571 parser Also print a warning when the intensity param is set, but RSSI is not enabled on the scanner. See #32.
Other minor changes
Contributors: Martin Günther

0.0.6 (2015-11-13)

First release into Jade
Create sick_tim571_2050001.launch This launch file can be used directly to connect to TIM571 devices. See #28.
Contributors: Martin Günther, sacuar

0.0.5 (2015-05-06)

Auto retry USB and TCP connections due to any reason; see #25
Parameterized TCP timeout
Contributors: Chad Rockey, Martin Günther, Jochen Sprickerhof, Jeff Schmidt

0.0.4 (2015-03-16)

Tim561: Make sick_tim551 node work with TiM561.
- The TiM561 has a angular resolution of 0.33°, which leads to 811 points per scan.
- Add warning if time_increment is inconsistent. This happens on the TiM561, which reports an incorrect measurement frequency.
- Add ros params to override a few values, including time_increment (#24 ).
All scanners: Split datagrams up before handing them to parse_datagram. This finally fixes the warning on datagrams of invalid length each time multiple datagrams are read. (#21)
All scanners: add subscribing to datagram topic. If subscribe_datagram is set, all nodes will now process the datagrams published on the datagram topic instead of reading from the physical device. Useful for debugging.
Contributors: Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Günther, Michael Ferguson, Michael Görner

0.0.3 (2015-01-09)

Merge pull request #20 from jspricke/fix_19 Fixes for #19
Increase get_datagram timout to 1 second, Closes: #19
Add ROS param for TCP port (defaults to 2112)
fix dependencies in CMakeLists All non-catkin things that we expose in our headers should be added to the DEPENDS, so that packages which depend on our package will also automatically link against it. Also see: http://answers.ros.org/question/58498/what-is-the-purpose-of-catkin_depends/#58593
Contributors: Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Günther

0.0.2 (2014-09-01)

Merge pull request #15 from v4hn/libusb-pkgconfig use libusb's pkgconfig support
Merge pull request #16 from v4hn/hydro_catkin_fixup fixup hydro catkinize
mark libsick_tim_3xx as exported
export headers related to libsick_tim3xx As far as I know nobody uses them right now, but as we install the library, why not provide the interface?
install meshes & urdf
add missing external dependencies make sure msg headers are built before sick_tim_3xx
use libusb's pkgconfig support This streamlines sick_tim's libusb detection.
updated URDF: restructuring, add TiM 511
renamed sick_tim.stl
added mesh for tim551
completed rename: sick_tim3xx -> sick_tim perl -e 's/sick_tim3xx/sick_tim/g' -pi $(git ls-files) perl -e 's/SickTim3xx/SickTim/g' -pi $(git ls-files) rename 's/sick_tim3xx/sick_tim/g' $(git ls-files) rename 's/SickTim3xx/SickTim/g' $(git ls-files)
Rename sick_tim3xx -> sick_tim
Merge pull request #13 from MadEgg/hydro_improved_tim551 Hydro improved tim551
Modified SICK TIM551 parser to accept reduced scanning range and to read out and publish intensity data. Also fixes breaking when a device name has been set. Replace hacky bare socket handling with proper boost::asio socket handling in sick_tim3xx_common_tcp.cpp. Introduces dependency on boost::asio 1.46 Fully functional and tested on tim551.
omit libusb-1.0 prefix automatically configured by CMake
sick_tim551 launch: add example snippet for enabling TCP
CMakeLists: rename libsick -> libsick_tim_3xx libsick.so was too generic and may cause name conflicts later on
package.xml: fix incorrect build_depend + run_depend build_depend and run_depend can only use either the name of a ros package, or something listed in rosdep db.
CMakeLists: add missing catkin_depends, fix depends
CMakeLists: don't export include dir / libary The previous configuration was incorrect: we exported an include path that we didn't install. One way to fix this would have been to install the headers, but since we don't expect any package outside of sick_tim3xx to be using our library, it's better not to install it at all.
Merge pull request #12 from efernandez/hydro_catkin sets dependencies and linking in the library
sets dependencies and linking in the library
Merge pull request #11 from efernandez/hydro_catkin renames libsick to sick, so we have libsick.so
renames libsick to sick, so we have libsick.so
package.xml: update email addresses, remove .gitignore
catkinizes sick_tim3xx
updated manifest.xml closes #8
common_usb: increase USB_TIMEOUT from 500 to 1000 ms This is necessary to make the tim310 work. It (strangely) only publishes with 1.875 Hz = one message every 533 ms, so a timeout of 500 ms always caused a LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT. This closes #7.
fix node name in launch files
urdf: removed box_inertial_with_origin xacro macro this conflicted with a new macro of the same name in uos_common_urdf/common.xacro
fixed warning message
add select() calls before reading in TCP mode. Now diagnostics won't go stale when the device is unplugged but report missing data errors correctly. The driver reconnects when the cable is plugged again.
adjusted parameters from real scanner
Added diagnostics support.
~hostname determines if TCP or USB is used. Also removed sick_tim3xx_common_tcp from Tim3xx binaries.
add TCP connection
prepare option for TCP on sick_tim551_2050001
split sick_tim3xx_common into common and usb specific stuff
merged fix from diamondback branch
updated stack.xml
add driver for SICK TiM551
include -> xacro:include
Don't publish message if there was a parsing error
more verbose warning when using wrong node
add launch files for new nodes
new node sick_tim310_1130000m01 (experimental)
new node sick_tim310 (experimental)
renamed sick_tim3xx node to sick_tim310s01
add test node: sick_tim3xx_datagram_test
refactoring: split parse_datagram() into own class
refactoring: split out common code into sick_tim3xx_common
refactoring: extract function parse_datagram()
when receiving more fields than expected, print number of fields
add optional datagram publishing (for debug)
check return code of init_usb(), exit on failure
Change udev rule from MODE to GROUP User needs to be a member of the plugdev group! New udev releases contain a 91-permissions.rules which overwrites the MODE="0666". An other workaround would be to move the 81-sick-tim3xx.rules after the 91-permissions.rules. This patch implements a proper fix, which is to use the plugdev group instead.
update URDF to be compatible with Gazebo 1.5 In the ros-groovy-simulator-gazebo update to 1.7.12, Gazebo was switched over to 1.5, which breaks compatibility with old-style URDFs. This commit updates to the new version.
modified rosdep dependency for compatibility with fuerte
updated .gitignore
fix max_angle calculation
add support for dynamic_reconfigure parameters
don't dump scans to rosout on error usually, this happens when we're lagging behind due to a different error; printing the stuff to rosout slows down the whole process enough so we never catch up.
changed default laser_frame to "laser", made xacro macro
adjust time stamp - last scan point = now ==> first scan point = now - 271 * time increment - also just assume 0.001 s USB latency between scanner and PC for now this avoids TF ExtrapolationExceptions (cannot project into future)
fixed frame name in gazebo URDF
URDF: renamed changed box_inertial ... because it doesn't play well with our other URDFs in kurt_description
URDF: introduced xacro properties for constants
add launch file
add URDF file and mesh for scanner
shift angle_min and angle_max by -PI/2 now angle_min = -135° and angle_max = +135°
turned everything into a class reason: this allows us to call all the cleanup code from the destructor, so we can make sure it's called every time we exit
properly exit on error, improved logging
change default frame name to fully qualified /laser_link
fix illegal write detected by valgrind
updated udev README
working implementation
copy SICK example code, start conversion to ROS
description in manifest
add includes, rosdep dependency on libusb
add BSD license header
add udev rules
add code skeleton for node
add roscpp dependency
initial commit
Contributors: Christian Dornhege, Egbert van der Wal, Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Günther, Michael Görner, enriquefernandez, v4hn