The Puck Lite - Compact, Economical 360° LiDAR.

DigiFlec are offering the Puck Lite from Velodyne at a competitive price, with units available for immediate delivery and academic discounts available for eligible buyers. Velodyne’s Puck Lite is a compact, lightweight and rugged 360° laser sensor, designed for applications which require high-resolution 3D mapping and sensing. The small size, low power consumption and high accuracy make the Puck Lite a popular choice for autonomous vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.?The 360° horizontal field of view, 30° vertical field of view, and range of 100 metres allows detailed capture of the surrounding environment, allowing the creation of accurate and highly detailed maps of the environment. The Puck Lite is designed to operate in adverse weather conditions, such as rain, snow and fog. The sensor can capture 300,000 points per second make it ideally suited to applications which require precise sensing, including obstacle detection in autonomous vehicles, object recognition in robotics and in terrain mapping. The Velodyne Puck Lite’s compact size and minimal power consumption mean that it can even be used hand held or mounted on a backpack.

The Puck Lite was developed for applications which required a smaller, lighter weight sensor than the original Velodyne Puck, built on Velodyne’s ‘558 patent. This patent relates to a LiDAR based 3D point cloud measuring system designed for use in Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS, Robotic vision, and other diverse applications. Essentially, the technology provides ‘eyes’ by offering 3D vision for robotics and machines.

Velodyne is committed to transforming lives and communities through the advance of safer mobility for everyone.?The Puck Lite offers further advance of this goal through the creation of a smaller and lighter unit, which consumes less power, increasing the number of applications where the use of 3D surround LiDAR can be used.

Recently, the Puck Lite was used to find the height of the tallest tree in China (a Bhutan pine, height 76.8 metres), through a combination of sensors mounted on a drone and on a mapping backpack.?Peking University used the Puck Lite to find the exact height of the tree, known to the local Moinba people as ‘See Sky’.?The Puck Lite allows 360° LiDAR to move beyond robotics and autonomous vehicles and into other exciting territories where it can be used to better understand the world we live in.

Find out more about the Puck Lite here.