Questions on Lidar #3856

Answered by rajat2004

kareemkher asked this question in Support Q&A

kareemkher
Dec 7, 2020

Hello! I had a few questions regarding LIDAR:

Are the supported lidar's on quadcopter 2D only? As in, can they measure distance in one plane only, or give data like a depth camera?
setting "DrawDebugPoints" to true makes the points visible, but they dont go away once the quadcopter moves... can it be possible to only include the live Debug Points, and erase the rest?

Answered by rajat2004

No, the Lidar works in 3D as well, set the Vertical FOV values as required, such as +/- 10. The pointcloud info can then be converted into the format required
A bug with DrawDebugPoints has been fixed in #2614, but this was after the last release, you'll have to use the latest master and build AirSim from source

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rajat2004
Dec 25, 2020

No, the Lidar works in 3D as well, set the Vertical FOV values as required, such as +/- 10. The pointcloud info can then be converted into the format required
A bug with DrawDebugPoints has been fixed in Fix Lidar DrawDebugPoints causing crash #2614, but this was after the last release, you'll have to use the latest master and build AirSim from source

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