Rplidar Use and Testing

Procurement of Rplidar just arrived, first opened, including the radar host, cable, serial port USB adapter, USB cable.

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According to the instructions to download the driver and SDK here, the radar data is actually output through the serial port, so the driver is only for the serial port USB conversion chip CP2102, the following SDK directory after decompression:

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In the documentation that came with the Using Method SDK under Windows, it is described in detail and is not mentioned here, but the effect of running Frame_grabber.exe is as follows:

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Here is a detailed description of how to use the Rplidar in Ubuntu 1204 and Ros Hydro environments, and since UBUNTU1204 is already CP2102 driven, it is no longer necessary to install the driver. After the radar is plugged into the USB port, the command lsub can be used to check

Rplidar Use and Testing