Neato XV-11 LIDAR Sensor Hacked
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 30 of November , 2010 at 12:39 am
Hobby roboticists now have a serious problem: which awesome off the shelf sensor do they use for 3D mapping, Kinect’s stereo camera system, or Neato’s LIDAR system, which has just been hacked wide open. Posting on RobotBox (presumably because of the sweet bounty that they threw down), Hash79 has provided video showing the raw distance output from a Neato XV-11′s LIDAR sensor:
The next step is for smart people to plug this hack into a module that the rest of us (who aren’t quite so smart) can readily access, like ROS. The step after that is to figure out how to find a Neato sensor without having to buy the entire robot. And the step after that is to go crazy and maybe speed up the motor and mount the sensor on a servo that scans up and down to get a whole 3D scene and damn this is going to be awesome!
VIA [ RobotBox ]
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