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It looks like a Velodyne HDL-32 [1] LiDAR unit. Broadly speaking, it pulses a bunch of lasers (32 in this case) really fast and measures the response time of ea
by culturestate 12y ago
It looks like a Velodyne HDL-32 [1] LiDAR unit. Broadly speaking, it pulses a bunch of lasers (32 in this case) really fast and measures the response time of each beam; think hyper-focused radar. The resulting point cloud can be used to build a high res map of its surroundings essentially in realtime.
1. http://velodynelidar.com/lidar/hdlproducts/hdl32e.aspx http://velodynelidar.com/lidar/hdlproducts/hdl32e.aspx
- mturmon 12y agoI forget the cost of that unit, but it's north of $10K, maybe $20K.