From now on, the ArduPilot flight controller firmware officially supports the full range of TOFSense laser ranging sensors independently developed by Nooploop. Starting with Plane/Copter/Rover 4.5, the Ardupilot firmware adds support for the TOFSense protocol for obstacle avoidance and height fixing. If users use firmware lower than this version, they need to migrate and modify the relevant files appropriately to support TOFSense series products, click here to jump to the driver and graphic tutorial webpage.

TOFSense laser ranging sensors are a series of products based on laser TOF ranging. The blind zone of the series is as low as 2cm, the distance is as high as 25m, and the series covers single point, multi-point, 2~63°FOV angle, UART, CAN, IIC, IO and a variety of communication interfaces. Cascade ranging is supported in the series to reduce the resource occupation of the communication interface, and the active output and passive query meet different development architectures. The system fully opens the communication protocol to adapt to various deep integration requirements. Detailed development materials and real-time technical support help developers get started easily, and are widely used in scenarios such as robot obstacle avoidance, drone height determination, detection and measurement, hydraulic stacking detection, and personnel detection.