0. My environment - Ubuntu 18.04 - ROS melodic 1. git clone rplidar source $ cd catkin_ws/src $ git clone https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros $ cd .. $ catkin_make 2. source bash $ source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash 3. Get permision USB $ ls /dev/ttyUSB* $ sudo chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB0 4. Test $ roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar.launch Reference: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros GitHub..