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This document introduces the open source RPLIDAR standard SDK. The SDK can

be used in Windows, MacOS (10.x) and Linux environment by using Microsoft

Visual C++ 2010 and Makefile.

SDK Organization

The RPLIDAR standard SDK organized as bellow:

Figure 1-1 The RPLIDAR standard SDK organization

The workspaces directory contains VS project files for SDK and related demo

applications.

The sdk directory contains the external header files(the include folder) of RPLIDAR

driver application and the internal implementation code of SDK itself(the src

folder).

The app directory contains the related sample code. And SLAMTEC provides the

following demo applications in the app directory:

ultra_simple

An ultra-simple command line application demonstrates the simplest way to

connect to an RPLIDAR device and continuously fetching the scan data and

outputting the data to the console. Users can quickly integrate RPLIDAR to their

existing system based on this demo application.

1. Introduction