Page Comparison

Anni

• Costs less, weighs less.

Daniel Puratich

• Imo easier to mount a few unidirectionals then a single omnidirection because it’s easier to not obscure the sensor with other parts of the drone

• Decision analysis is comprehensive and I agree with recommendation.

• Cost aspect is really important!

Megan

• agreed

• 360 lidar would be probably in a crumple zone, at least with unidirection they can be protected better

Alison

• only plus here is we’d only need one mount as opposed to a few, don’t think this is the biggest deal but worth mentioning

Alison

• also agreed

• less weight = biggest factor imo

• cost less = also good

Conall

• From mech: diff in weight < 100g doesn’t really matter

• Omni setup upgrade rated for outdoors for small increase in price seems better?

Nathan

• Same as conall… if we can afford omni is probably fine as long as weight is ok?

• We know where the obstacles are, we can check angles and as long as we keep drone pointed in known direction, single/few unidirectional to find wall should be fine.

Mena

• Handing decision off to michael

  • open to anything

Michael

• Omnidir. easier wrt harnessing/support

• custom integration boards for unidir would be cool project

Mihir

• Advocate for being able to cover more dimensions

• omnidirectional W?

• covering more dimensions good because that way we don’t worry about having to worry about the direction / orientation of the drone during software programming

  • i.e. 6 uni

Xierumeng

• if lidar not water resistant, mech needs to build weatherproofing for lidar == weight

• multiple lidars = more harnessing (weight, complexity)

• Unidirectional lidars still useful in the future (vertical ranging)

• Multiple Omnidirectional lidar harder to find use cases in future.