It is widely known that a UAV can be working well only when the unmannedaerial vehicle system cooperates well. The UAV system mainly includes the machine body, moving control system, data link system, launch recovery system, and power supply system. The moving control system is equivalent to the "heart" part of the UAV system, and has an important impact on the stability of the UAV, reliability of data transmission, accuracy, real-time performance, etc. It plays a decisive role in good flight performance.

    Actually, the moving control system generally contains a lot of sensors, speed sensors, angular rate sensors, altitude sensors, pressure, optical flow, and so on. Although mechanical single channel LiDAR is pretty common in our life, but two problems cannot be neglected, i.e. short service life and high price due to the rotating measurement mode. So we test CE30, a solid-state LiDAR with larger FoV. It output grey and depth information within 132° horizontal FoV and 9° vertical FoV. Meanwhile no mechanical rotating components exist internally. Based on the optimized obstacle avoidance mode, we focus on the obstacle information in the ROI and enable unimpeded driving. Moreover, it can be applied in the general vehicle field, including Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV, such as intelligent warehouse vehicle), autopilot cars and industrial automation, etc.

    Please refer to in case of further questions.
    The update log of Benewake solid-state LiDAR CE30 is in the following.
Key point
1.   Datasheet
2.   User-defined ID/IP
3.   Wide input voltage

1.   Datasheet
The latest datasheets and operation manuals are available.
《DE-LiDAR CE30-A Datasheet - V011-EN》
《DE-LiDAR CE30-A operation manual - V008-EN》

《DE-LiDAR CE30-C Datasheet-V010-EN》
《DE-LiDAR CE30-C Operation Manual - V007》

Download:  http://benewake.com/down.html
Consult:

2.   User-defined ID/IP
1)   CAN – obstacle avoidance mode：
a)   User-defined Baud Rate – to match the baud rate of other devices in CAN bus
b)   User-defined CAN-ID including data ID, heartbeat ID, command ID and config ID – to install multiple CE30-A devices in one CAN bus
See instructions in CE30-A Datasheet, page 10，Chapter 4.1.4.

2)   Point-cloud IP
User-defined IP address – to install multiple CE30-C devices in one robot
See instructions in CE30-C Datasheet, page 11，Chapter 7.1.

3.   Wide input voltage
The input voltage used to be 12V DC. Now it is updated to 11-25V.

In case of further questions, please refer to

What is the cost for this whole setup.

I read Chris Anderson's article on this on the diyrobocars website. This seems to be a very interesting product.

@AL it's under 1000$

Quote from: AL HAM SHARI on April 12, 2018, 09:51:35 AM
What is the cost for this whole setup.

It is ranging from US$800 to US$1500 with different kinds of CE30(A,C andD), which have different FoV, detecting range and so on. If you are interesting, you can contact for a faster and more detailed info.   

Quote from: rcrcnitesh on April 12, 2018, 10:04:49 AM
I read Chris Anderson's article on this on the diyrobocars website. This seems to be a very interesting product.

@AL it's under 1000$

Yes, buddy. CE30-A price is lower than US$900,  if you wanna more info about it, you can contact , there is tech support for easy talking. (*^_^*)

How do we add this to an autopilot, for example Pixhawk (CE30-C)

Quote from: AL HAM SHARI on April 12, 2018, 03:47:58 PM
How do we add this to an autopilot, for example Pixhawk (CE30-C)

CE30-C does not connect to pixhawk, but can connect to Arduino which is specially made. TFmini is much suitable for drones. Buddy, I strongly recommend you contact tech at , you will know more than I said. ;9.
I cannot say too much, you know me  =.=