Omron LD-60 User Manual page 12

1.2 Product Description
Callout
A LD Platform Core
B Platform Sonar Controller
C Rear Sonar X4 (2 pairs transducers)
D Battery Door Skin
E Pendant/Ethernet Access Panel
The platform combines hardware and mobile-robotics software to provide an intelligent,
mobile platform to transport your payload. Once it scans its environment, the platform knows
where it is within a workspace, and can navigate safely and autonomously to any accessible
destination within that workspace, continuously and without human intervention.
The LD Platform OEM uses a Safety Scanning Laser as its primary guidance to navigate, com-
paring the laser readings to a digital map stored in the platform's Core. The laser is backed up
by a low front laser, two rear-facing sonar pairs, a front bumper, a gyroscope mounted on the
LD Platform core, and encoders and Hall sensors on each drive wheel.
For situations that are so dynamic that laser localization becomes difficult, we offer the Acuity
Localization option, which localizes the platform using an upward-facing camera to recognize
overhead lighting patterns. This is covered in detail in the LD Platform Peripherals User's Guide.
This would apply to areas where objects, such as pallets or carts, are moved so frequently that
they can't be mapped, or where they block the laser's view of the mapped features.
For most applications, you will want to customize the platform with a payload structure,
attached to the top of the platform, for some combination of picking up, transporting, and
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Figure 1-1. LD Platform OEM Layout
Description
LD-60/90 Platform User's Manual
Callout Description
F Safety Scanning Laser
G Low Front Laser
H Light Disc x2
J Front Bumper
K Front Caster x2, Drive Wheel x2,
Rear Caster x2
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