Leddar One Lidar

The Leddar One Lidar is a light weight and reasonably priced lidar with 40m range, 70hz update rate and 3-degree diffuse beam. For more details please refer to the datasheet.

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Note

Support for LeddarOne is available in Copter-3.4.2 (or higher), Plane-3.8 (or higher), Rover-3.1 (or higher).

Warning

Severe spikes in the reported range have been found in some Coptere-3.4.2 user’s logs so we recommend careful ground testing of the distances reported or wait until Copter-3.4.3 is released by which time we hope to have the cause of these spikes identified.

Connecting to the AutoPilot

The sensor’s serial connection can be connected to any spare serial port (i.e. Telem1, Teleme2, Serial4) on the autopilot. Connect the lidar’s RX line to the autopilot’s UART TX line, the lidar’s TX line to the UART’s RX then also connect the GND and 5V lines. The image below shows how the sensor output pins can be connected to a Pixhawk’s Serial4 port.

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You then need to setup the serial port and rangefinder parameters. If you have used the SERIAL4/5 port on the Pixhawk then you would set the following parameters for the first rangefinder (this is done on the Mission Planner’s Config/Tuning | Full Parameter List page):

If you instead were using the Telem2 port on the Pixhawk then you would set SERIAL2_PROTOCOL = 9, and SERIAL2_BAUD = 115200

Testing the sensor

Distances read by the sensor can be seen in the Mission Planner’s Flight Data screen’s Status tab. Look closely for “sonarrange”.

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