URG laser

How to drive Hoyuko's URG series laser sensors.

Installation

$ make menuconfig

Package Selection for the target  --->
    Hardware handling / blockdevices and filesystem maintenance  --->
        [*]   urg library

$ make

• reflash rootfs

Usage

To use Hokoyu URG laser, you need Prolific pl2303 USB to serial adapter ( see here to install pl2303).

# modprobe pl2303
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
USB Serial support registered for pl2303
usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
# usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using mxc-ehci and address 3
usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=15d1, idProduct=0000
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-1: Product: URG-Series USB Driver
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Hokuyo Data Flex for USB
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
# 

Links

• URG library homepage