Introduction

sicktoolbox-python is an atlasbuggy wrapper for the sicktoolbox library. Using this library, you can interface with SICK LIDARs that can be interfaced with using the standard sicktoolbox library.

Setup

Dependencies

sicktoolbox-python depends on Boost, with header files for Python. To install Boost on a linux machine, follow the instructions below.

1. Install libicu-dev for unicode support:

sudo apt-get install libicu-dev

2. Download the latest Boost source from here and unzip the file.
3. Navigate to the unzipped directory and generate the build configuration with Python 3.x support.

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=boost_output --with-python=python3

4. Build the library. If you would like to build in parallel, add -j after install, with n representing the number of cores.

./b2 install

5. Set the BOOST_ROOT environmental variable in your .bashrc to the path to the boost_output directory created when building.

echo 'export BOOST_ROOT=\path\to\boost_output' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

sicktoolbox-python also depends on sicktoolbox. We will work with a fork of the main sicktoolbox repository.

git clone https://github.com/AtlasBuggy/sicktoolbox-fork.git
cd sicktoolbox-fork
./configure
make
sudo make install

Installation

Now that we have dependencies setup, we can install sicktoolbox-python. To install, simply do the following:

mkdir build
./build.sh

To add lms200 to your python packages, create a symlink to the lms200 folder in your python installation's site packages. For example, if your python installation is located at /usr/local/lib/python3.5 and you are currently in the sicktoolbox-python folder, run the following.

sudo ln -s ./lms200 /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/lms200