UR-12 Short Range LiDAR

Magni lidar connection

Schematic

Range 12 m
Cabling USB-to-Serial
Based on LDRobot LD-06
Input power voltage 4.5V-5.5V (USB)
Scan frequency 5-13Hz
Min detection distance 0.02m
Max detection distance 5-12m
Scan angle 360 degree
Ranging method TOF flight time ranging
SKU SRL00001

When changing out sensors makes sure to disconnect the RED battery cable from the batteries and wait 2 minutes so high voltage and current are not linked with the main board!

Installation

Plug the USB cable (on the picture above) into any of the Raspberry Pi USB port (NOT the MCB ones, those only provide power) and the lidar should turn on automatically when the Pi boots.

On raspberry Pi:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src/
git clone https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ur12_lidar.git
cd ..
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
catkin_make
source devel/setup.bash 

Make sure that lidar launch reflects the device name that the ld06 lidar is registered under and then:

roslaunch ur12_lidar ur12_lidar.launch