User Manual

FIG 2 YDLIDAR GS2 DEVICE CONNECTION

Connect the adapter board with GS2 first, then connect the USB cable to the USB port

of the adapter board and the PC. Note that the Type-C interface of the USB cable is

connected to the USB_DATA of the USB adapter board.

The drive current of USB interface of some development platforms or PC is not

sufficient. GS2 need to be connected to the auxiliary power supply of +5V, otherwise the

lidar will be abnormal.

FIG 3 YDLIDAR GS2 AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY

2.2 Driver Installation

To evaluate and develop the GS2 under Windows, the serial port driver of the USB

adapter board. The USB adapter board need to be installed of this kit adopts CP2102 chip

to realize serial port (UART) to USB signal conversion. Its driver can be downloaded from

our official website or downloaded from the official website of Silicon Labs.

https://www.ydlidar.com/dowfile.html?id=97

http://cn.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers

After unzip the driver package, run the CP2102's Windows driver installation file (exe

file under CP210x_VCP_Windows). Please select the 32-bit version (x86) or 64-bit version

(x64) installation program according to the version of the windows operating system.