Hindrance detection and avoidance for boats with a Lidar VLP-16 from Velodyne and Robotic Operating System (ROS) Kinetic. We use the Point Cloud Library as help with the complicated calculation.
This contains only the package with its source, it is not plug'n'play here. For information how to compile and start the package look at wiki.ros.org. For information about the Pointcloud Library that I am using, take a look at their website.
Library:
- PCL 1.8
Drivers:
- velodyne
- pcl_ros
Distribution:
- ROS Kinetic (all the packages)
Host OS:
- Ubuntu Mate (16.4)