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I enjoy electronics. I am most interested in building robots. I built one using a GPS module and it worked only ok. My next project is to build a follow me robot using a LIDAR module. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'm sure it would be helpful. I found one youtube video on LIDAR but only one. I hope to see more video's on LIDAR.

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Ray 

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Posted by: @rayb9948

I enjoy electronics. I am most interested in building robots. I built one using a GPS module and it worked only ok. My next project is to build a follow me robot using a LIDAR module. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'm sure it would be helpful. I found one youtube video on LIDAR but only one. I hope to see more video's on LIDAR.

Thank you,

Ray 

Welcome to the forum Ray. It sounds like you need to follow member @Inq. He and a few others are 7 pages into a topic about some sort of intelligent robot (I think, it's all beyond me)

Almost forgot Dennis (@Inq) has done some work with Lidar.

 

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Posted by: @rayb9948

I enjoy electronics. I am most interested in building robots. I built one using a GPS module and it worked only ok. My next project is to build a follow me robot using a LIDAR module. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'm sure it would be helpful. I found one youtube video on LIDAR but only one. I hope to see more video's on LIDAR.

Thank you,

Ray 

Welcome to the forum...

I mostly use ToF sensors which is the same principle as lidar, but in a cheaper, smaller package.  If you're talking about the spinning kind I think @robotbulder is the most up on using those.  As @zander said, the InqEgg robot (see many topics on it to the right) we're on page 7.  It's a pretty simple robot using a 8 X 8 ray ToF sensor as input to an AI robot that I hope will not run into things.  And yes, in theory at least it should be able to train to do following of a person.  Actually, that might be an interesting 2nd task for it.  

 

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@rayb9948 Bill has a video at

and the article that goes with it is at https://dronebotworkshop.com/getting-started-with-lidar/

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@rayb9948

@inq wrote:

If you're talking about the spinning kind I think @robotbuilder is the most up on using those.

I have never used one.  My only experience is with sonar.

sonarBot

I was going to suggest Bill's tutorial.

My only current interest is trying to use vision for navigation and recognition tasks.

 

 


   
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