User Manual
Table Of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Description
- 1.2. SPI Carrier Board
- 1.3. USB, CAN and SERIAL Carrier Board
- 1.4. Working Diagram
- 1.4.1. SPI Carrier Board
- 1.4.2. USB, CAN and SERIAL Board
- 2. Underlying Principles
- 3. Getting Started
- 3.1. Optional Power Supply
- 3.2. Optional SPI cable
- 3.3. Setup
- 3.4. Connecting to the LeddarVu Module
- 4. Measurements and Settings
- 4.1. Distance Measurement
- 4.2. Data Description
- 4.3. Acquisition Settings
- 4.3.1. General Settings
- 4.3.2. Enabling and Disabling Segments
- 4.4. Measurement Rate
- 4.5. CPU Load
- 5. Communication Interfaces
- 5.1. SPI Interface
- 5.1.1. SPI Basics
- 5.1.2. SPI Protocol
- 5.1.3. Memory Map
- Configuration Data
- Product Configuration
- Device Information and Constants
- LeddarVu Device Information and Constants
- General Status
- LeddarVu Status
- Detection List
- Transaction Configuration
- 5.1.4. SPI Operation
- 5.1.4.1. SPI Port Configuration
- 5.1.4.2. Sensor Hard Reset
- 5.1.4.3. Speed and timing
- 5.1.4.4. Access
- 5.1.4.5. Modification
- 5.2. I2C Interface
- 5.3. USB Interface
- 5.4. Serial Link Interface
- 5.5. CAN Bus Interface
- 6. Leddar™ Configurator
- 6.1. Introduction to Configurator Software
- 6.2. Connection Window
- 6.3. Leddar™ Configurator Main Window
- 6.3.1. Toolbar
- 6.3.2. Fit to Window
- 6.3.3. Force Equal Horizontal and Vertical Scales
- 6.3.4. Zoom in
- 6.3.5. Zoom out
- 6.3.6. Scale
- 6.3.7. Panning and Zooming
- 6.3.8. Changing the LeddarVu Module Origin
- 6.3.9. Changing the LeddarVu Module Orientation
- 6.4. Settings
- 6.4.1. Module Name
- 6.4.2. Acquisition Settings
- 6.4.3. Serial Port
- 6.4.4. CAN Port
- 6.5. Saving and Loading a Configuration
- 6.6. Configuring Detection Records
- 6.7. Using Detection Records
- 6.8. Data Logging
- 6.9. Firmware Update
- 6.10. Device State
- General
- Device Information
- Carrier
- 6.11. Preferences
- 6.12. Raw Detections
- 7. Specifications
- 7.1. General
- 7.2. Mechanical
- 7.3. Electrical
- 7.4. Optical
- 7.5. Performance
- 7.6. Regulatory Compliance and Safety
- 7.7. Dimensions
- 7.7.1. 98.5 Module
- 7.7.2. 47.5 Module
- 7.7.3. 16 Module
- 8. Technical Support
- Appendix A ̶ Example of a 0x04 function (read input register)
- Appendix B ̶ Example of a 0x41 Modbus Function
- Appendix C ̶ Example of a LeddarVu CAN Bus Detection Request
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filter out the false measurements at the application level. For example, this can be useful in
applications that require long detection ranges or detection of small or low reflectivity targets.
Smoothing
The smoothing algorithm increases the precision of the measurement at the cost of the LeddarVu
module reactivity. The history length of the filter is defined as a function of the measurement noise
level. It also changes according to the oversampling and accumulation settings.
The history length of the averaging filter can also be adjusted by a parameter ranging from −16 to
16. Clear the Enable check box to disable smoothing. Higher values increase the module precision
but reduce the module reactivity. An example of the behavior of the measurement smoothing
algorithm is depicted in Figure 17.
Figure 17: Measurement smoothing example
The red line represents the true target distance; the blue curve corresponds to the target distance
measured by the module without smoothing, while the green curve is the smoothed measurements.
One could notice the measurement precision (standard deviation) is dramatically improved by the
smoothing algorithm.
NOTE: The smoothing algorithm is recommended for applications that need highly precise
measurements of slowly moving objects. For application that tracks quickly moving objects, it is
advised to decrease the value of the smoothing parameter or to disable the smoothing algorithm.
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