Obtain Lidar Serial Number

[ryank-cobot]

Hello,

We are looking for a way to obtain the Serial Number of the lidar programmatically through the ROS driver. Is this capability possible? Thanks so much for your help in advance.

Best,
Ryan

[yangfanFred]

Hi Ryan,

Serial Number can be obtained by sending lidar units TCP commands.
ROS driver doesn't provide a function to directly obtain the SN, but it provides functions to send and receive TCP commands.
Please refer codes in "tcp_command_client.c" for General_ROS project, please refer the codes in "ptc_client.cc" for ROS2.0 project.
For details of the available TCP commands, please refer the TCP API manual for the lidar model you are using.

Thanks,
Fred