Manual

LW20 / SF20 LiDAR sensor
Product manual
There are four tabs at the top of the home screen. Each one provides a visualization of the settings inside the LW20 and guides you
through the setup process as follows:
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The “Home” tab shows the welcome screen with shortcuts to other screens shown near the bottom
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The “Setup” tab is for checking or entering settings with graphical indicators showing the effect of any changes
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The “Parameters” tab gives a tabulated summary of all the settings
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The “Operate” tab is a graphical display that shows the LW20 working with the settings that you have entered
Figure 6 :: The graphical interface Home screen
The “Setup” tab is divided into three functional areas. On the left there are four buttons that group related settings together. In the
middle column the names and values of each setting are shown in editable boxes. On the right of the screen there is a graphic
visualizing the group of settings.
The four Setup buttons have the following features:
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The “Laser” button is for settings that relate to distance measurement, communication and encoding
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The “Servo” button is to configure the physical parameters of servo chosen for scanning
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The “Sweep” button defines the software limits of the scan
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The “Alarm” button is used to create software controlled, two dimensional alarms
Figure 7 :: The graphical interface Setup screen
Details of each button and how to use the settings are given later in this manual.
Note that any settings changes are not automatically saved. The “Save” button must be pressed if you want to keep the changes.
The graphics can be manipulated to alter their position and angle of view using the left and right mouse keys. There is a scale slider
in the top right hand corner along with icons to return to the default isometric view or change to a view from above.
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