RPLIDAR Tutorial Review

RPLIDAR is a low cost LIDAR sensor suitable for indoor robotic SLAM application. It provides 360 degree scan field, 5.5hz/10hz rotating frequency with guaranteed 8 meter ranger distance. By means of the high speed image processing engine designed by RoboPeak, the whole cost are reduced greatly,RPLIDAR is the ideal sensor in cost sensitive areas like robots consumer and hardware hobbyist. Besides, ROS (Robot Operating System) is a popular software library for robotics programming. It is free, open-source, and used by robotics researchers and companies around the world. In this page, you will find a gallery of RPLIDAR Tutorials, some of them basing on ROS platforms.

Within DFRobot.com, there are two versions of RPLIDAR products available. One is RPLIDAR A1M8 - 360 Degree Laser Scanner Development Kit(SKU:DFR0315),

and the other is a high performance version RPLIDAR A2 - 360 Degree Laser Scanner Development Kit (SKU:DFR0445),

Tutorial Lists:

1. Low Cost 360 degree 2D Laser Scanner (LIDAR) System A1M1-R1 Development Kit User Manual

In this tutorial it illustrates the A1 version from many views, such as usage, development guide, SDK, etc. 

2. Low Cost 360 Degree Laser Range Scanner Introduction and Datasheet A1M8

In this document you will find the introduction and datasheet of A1M8 model.

3. Low Cost 360 Degree Laser Range Scanner Development Kit User Manual Model: A2M4 

And this is the the introduction and datasheet of A2M4 model.

4. How to use rplidar

In this tutorial it shows How to build rplidar ros package and How to install rplidar to your robot

5. ROS tutorial #1: Introduction, Installing ROS, and running the Turtlebot simulator.

This video introduces ROS and describes its advantages and disadvantages. It also walks through installing ROS Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04, installing the Turtlebot software, and running the Turtlebot simulation in Gazebo.

6. ROS tutorial #2: Publishers and subscribers

This tutorial introduces ROS Nodes, Publishers, Subscribers, Topics, and Messages, and discusses tools for working with them. It also talks briefly about the ROS Master and how nodes communicate. Finally, it introduces a programming lab, which we walk through in the next video in the series.

7. The rplidar ros package, support rplidar A2/A1

In this page you can find a Package Summary of Rplidar A2 and A1. Besides, you can also check the wiki page of ROS to read more. 

8. From unboxing RPLIDAR to running in ROS in 10 minutes flat

In this tutorial you can find how to start RPLIDAR in ROS within 10 minutes.

9. SLAM implementation in ROS`

In this example, you can find how to use laser scanner and odometry system with high resolution encoders to perform accurate and precise RPLIDAR.