We recently got the LIDAR unit working with our cRIO control system and are very excited with the results! The LIDAR unit communicates via RS-232 to the cRIO which parses the data and plots it onto a graph. The picture below shows a view of what the LIDAR is looking at along with [...]
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Thanks to a very generous donation from WPI alumnus Philip Blackman, we have received a SICK LMS-291 LIDAR unit. We will mount this industrial sensor on the front of the vehicle and use it for determining the distance between the vehicle and objects located in the course. We are currently working on integrating the [...]
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