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- Page 1 YDLIDAR X4 USER MANUAL Doc#：01.13.000003 文档编码：01.13.000008...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS YDLIDAR x4 Development Kit ......................2 Development Kit ..........................2 Windows Usage guide ........................3 Device connection ......................... 3 Driver Installation .......................... 4 Evaluation software ........................5 Linux ROS operation ........................7 File description ..........................7 Configuration instructions ......................8 Device connection ......................... -
Page 3: Ydlidar X4 Development Kit
The YDLIDAR X4 (hereafter abbreviated as X4) development kit is designed to facilitate users' performance evaluation and early development of the X4. By using the X4 development kit and matching evaluation software, point cloud data scanned by X4 to the environment can be observed on the PC or developed on the SDK. -
Page 4: Windows Usage Guide
FIG 3 YDLIDAR X4 CONNECTION STEP 2 Connect the adapter board and X4 first, and then connect the USB cable to the USB port on the adapter board and the PC. Note that the USB interface's Micro interface is connected to the USB adapter's USB_DATA. -
Page 5: Driver Installation
Driver Installation To evaluate and develop the X4 under Windows, you need to install the serial port driver of the USB adapter board. The USB adapter board of this kit adopts CP2102 chip to realize serial port (UART) to USB signal conversion. Its driver can be downloaded from our official website or downloaded from the official website of Silicon Labs: http://ydlidar.com/... -
Page 6: Evaluation Software
And can save the scan data offline to an external file for further analysis. Before using YDLIDAR, make sure that the X4 USB adapter board serial port driver is installed successfully, and check whether the X4 and PC USB ports are successfully interconnected. Run the evaluation software: PointCloudViewer.exe, select the corresponding serial port number and model... - Page 7 ：Start scanning: Lidar will enter scanning mode. After starting the scan, point cloud data can be observed on the software interface. ：Save the scan data acquired by X4 to a file for easy viewing and analysis. Click to start scanning; you can see the point cloud data in the software interface as shown below: www.ydlidar.com Copyright 2015-2018 YDLIDAR Team...
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Page 8: Linux Ros Operation
Run the file, Lidar X4 starts scanning and shows the point cloud Lidar.launch Run the file, Lidar (G4, F4 and X4) starts scanning, no data, no point cloud display Lidar_view.launch Run the file, Lidar (G4,F4 and X4) starts scanning and shows the point cloud www.ydlidar.com Copyright 2015-2018 YDLIDAR Team... -
Page 9: Configuration Instructions
Note 1: need to select the correct file to run, for example: X4 cannot run f4_view.launch, you can run x4_view.launch and Lidar_view.launch; Note 2: To run Lidar_view.launch and Lidar.launch, you need to confirm that the Lidar.launch configuration information is correct. See the configuration instructions for details. -
Page 10: Device Connection
If there is a problem with the installation, update the source cache and reinstall it. $ sudo apt-get update RVIZ Check the scan results Run the launch file and open rviz to view the X4 scan results, as shown in the following figure: $ roslaunch ydlidar x4_view.launch www.ydlidar.com Copyright 2015-2018 YDLIDAR Team... -
Page 11: Modify The Scan Angle Problem
The specific operation is as follows: （1） Go to x4.launch's directory and use vim to edit x4.launch. The contents are as shown in the figure:... -
Page 12: Use Caution
X4's vision system. If you need to use it outdoors, please avoid that the X4's vision system is directly facing the sun. This may cause permanent damage to the vision system's sensor chip, thus invalidating the distance measurement.