Slamtec RPLIDAR(https://www.slamtec.com/lidar/a3) series is a set of high-performance and low-cost LIDAR(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar) sensors, which is the perfect sensor of 2D SLAM, 3D reconstruction, multi-touch, and safety applications.
This is the public SDK of RPLIDAR products in Rust, and open-sourced under GPLv3 license.
If you are using ROS (Robot Operating System), please use our open-source ROS node directly: https://github.com/slamtec/rplidar_ros .
If you are just evaluating RPLIDAR, you can use Slamtec RoboStudio(https://www.slamtec.com/robostudio) (currently only support Windows) to do the evaulation.
Please see Roadmap for details.
RPLIDAR SDK supports Windows, macOS and Linux by using Visual Studio 2010 projects and Makefile.
| LIDAR Model \ Platform | Windows | macOS | Linux | | ---------------------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | | A1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | | A2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | | A3 | Yes | No | Yes |
This crate works with Cargo and is on crates.io. Add it to your Cargo.toml like so:
toml
[dependencies]
rplidar_drv = "0.5.0"
To use RPLIDAR Rust SDK is quite simple:
```rust extern crate rplidar_drv; extern crate serialport;
use rplidar_drv::RplidarDevice;
let mut serialport = serialport::open("COM3").unwrap(); let mut rplidar = RplidarDevice::withstream(serial_port);
let deviceinfo = rplidar.getdeviceinfo().unwrap(); rplidar.startscan().unwrap();
while true { let scanpoint = rplidar.grabscan_point().unwrap();
// use the scan point data
} ```