• Overview
• Start screen
• How to use
• GUI output example

This sample comes only with the Python version.

Overview

tkLRFViewer is an example of an RTC that displays the output from a Laser Range Finder sensor. Connect and use the RTC that handles the input from the laser range finder. Enter the RTC to be connected according to the device to be connected. For example, see Hokuyo Electric Co., Ltd. URG series. The LRF sensor is a sensor that scans the space while rotating the Laser rangefinder and sends out the measured distance data sequentially. Data is output in the form of the initial value and end value of the rotation angle, the angle interval at which each distance data is measured, and a series of measured distance data. This component is to show the scanned data by using a graphic format.

Start screen

When this component is started, the following GUI screen is displayed.

How to use

To use this RTC, as described above, read the sensor output from the externally connected Laser Range Finder sensor, convert it, and convert it to a RangeData type and also refer to the above link about the laser range finder sensor.

• In the Windows environment, this tkLRFViewer component can be started by double-clicking tkLRFViewer.bat in the "Program Files \ OpenRTM-aist \ 1.2.x \ Components \ Python" directory in Explorer. And start the RTC for the sensor and connect to this component by using RTSystemEditor or RTShell.
• The tkLRFViewer GUI has four sliders that determine the parameters of [Scale Factor], [Threshold], [Filter (Time)], and [Filter (Spacial)]. There are checkboxes for [Axis], [Grid], [Line], [Fill], [Threshold], [Filter (Time)], and [Fileter (Spacial)]. And there is [Reset Scale] button. The functions of each one are shown in the table below.

Note) The current display scale and the way Threshold works are not effective settings in the real world. It is recommended to rewrite and adjust the source code according to the user environment.

GUI output example

The GUI will output something like the following screen.