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Lidar stands for “light detection and ranging”. A Lidar sensor has one or more rotating laser beams and can generate several thousand distance points per revolution in a fraction of a second. Typical automotive Lidar sensors have 8, 16 or 32 separate beams that allow a much better interpretation of the 3D environment.

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Bräunl, T. (2020). Lidar Sensors. In: Robot Adventures in Python and C. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38897-3_4

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