Ping Sonar and ROS

[Balcioglu (Batuhan Balcıoğlu)]

Hello,

We have a ping sonar and we use our underwater vehicle with Robot Operating System (ROS). How can we use ping sonar on the ROS.

Best Regards,

[EliotBR (Eliot)]

I haven’t used ROS before, but given bluerobotics provides the ping-python and ping-cpp libraries on github, you can likely use one of them to connect with it.

In case it’s helpful, the bluerobotics companion computer uses ping360_bridge_manager.py to connect to the Ping360 on startup, and port-forward messages between it and PingViewer running on the top computer.

[patrickelectric (Patrick José Pereira)]

Check this post:

Ping360 ROS Package

Hey all! @Stormix and I are working in a ROS Package for the Ping360 sonar, we managed to do so using the python library you provided (brping). We published our work on GitHub Here it is it’s still a WIP (/develop branch). You can check it out and let us know what you think. However, we were wondering if there is an ETA on the ping-cpp device library, because we would like to create a C++ version of the package. Best regards, Henrique Martinez.

[Balcioglu (Batuhan Balcıoğlu)]

Thank you so much Patrick.

[Balcioglu (Batuhan Balcıoğlu)]

Thank you so much EliotInsight.