Low-cost Retina-like Robotic Lidars Based on Incommensurable Scanning

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High performance lidars are essential in autonomous robots such as self-driving cars, automated ground vehicles and intelligent machines.

• Traditional mechanical scanning lidars offer superior performance in autonomous vehicles, but the potential mass application is limited by the inherent manufacturing difficulty.
• We propose a robotic lidar sensor based on incommensurable scanning that allows straightforward mass production and adoption in autonomous robots.
• Some unique features are additionally permitted by this incommensurable scanning.