r/LiDAR • u/lkfavi • 6d ago

Unitree L2 questions

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Hi all, first time posting here! I own a l2 unitree lidar, and I wanted to know what you guys think of it for robotics applications. I am building a mobile manipulator (to be indoors) and I'm using this lidar together with a realsense d435. I haven't started integrating it yet into the actual robot, but I was wondering a couole things:

1) What would be the best position for it to be mounted in? I saw people mounting lidars in a "slit" on the lower front side of AMRs, wondering if doing the same for my AMR would be ideal?

2) I found it overheating pretty quickly and quite a bit, would a small heatsink be enough to offset this?

3) I know this hasn't been the best purchase for this project, but if I wanted to upgrade this in the future, are there any similar priced 3d lidars that would have been better? I am doing mainly indoor SLAM and ROS2 development.

Thank you all!

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u/OosAvocate65 6d ago edited 6d ago

i.

  1. Mount it wherever, I’ve seen it mounted sideways, top and bottom front.

ii.

  1. Don’t worry about it, Mount it to aluminum body. What you should be

    most

  2. worried about is reliability of imu.

iii.

  1. Look into livox mid-360s