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Copyright (c) 2009-2013 RoboPeak Team
Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Shanghai Slamtec Co., Ltd.
Mechanism
The RPLIDAR A2 is based on laser triangulation ranging principle and adopts the
high-speed vision acquisition and processing hardware developed by SLAMTEC.
The system ranges up to 8000 times per second.
Figure 1-2 The RPLIDAR Working Schematic
During every ranging process, the RPLIDAR emits modulated infrared laser signal
and the laser signal is then reflected by the object to be detected. The returning
signal is then sampled by vision acquisition system in RPLIDAR and the DSP
embedded in RPLIDAR starts processing the sample data and outputs distance
value and angle value between object and RPLIDAR via communication interface.
When drove by the motor system, the range scanner core will rotate clockwise
and perform the 360-degree scan for the current environment.
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