APPLICATIONS & SOLUTIONS
LiDAR applications and solutions for real-world sensing tasks
Explore LiDAR applications and solutions for UAV near-ground ranging, robot obstacle detection, and industrial measurement—organized by task, product fit, integration path, and operating limits.
Explore by application area
Start with an application area, then choose the solution that matches your task. You do not need to know the product model first.
UAV
Explore product fit and integration paths for near-ground ranging, terrain following, hovering, and flight tasks.
UAV Terrain Following
Measure the distance between the aircraft and the surface below, providing continuous range input for low-altitude terrain-following adjustment.
UAV Position Holding / Hovering
Measure distance to the surface below for near-ground altitude hold, hovering, and stable-altitude cruise input.
UAV gimbal rangefinding
Provide target distance along the gimbal line of sight for range display, mission records, or upper-level calculations.
UAV altitude hold and hover
Provide near-ground range input to the flight controller for low-altitude hold, hover, and descent.
UAV detection and avoidance
Provide forward or downward range input so the UAV system can trigger slowdown, rerouting, or stop logic.
Robotics
For obstacle avoidance, drop prevention, and logistics robot sensing tasks.
Shuttle vehicle obstacle avoidance
Provide forward obstacle distance in warehouse aisles and connect it to slowdown zones and stopping logic.
Robot drop prevention and obstacle avoidance
Use downward floor distance and forward obstacle distance as separate inputs for robot slowdown and stop actions.
Assistive-device ranging
Provide forward or downward range input in an assistive device, with TF-Luna as the featured sensor.
Smart logistics and last-mile delivery
Provide short-to-medium-range distance input for logistics and delivery robots to support aisle sensing, approach decisions, slowdown, and stopping.
Overhead crane positioning and obstacle avoidance
Provide long-range position or separation input for overhead cranes to support travel zones, slowdown, and obstacle-avoidance logic.
Level detection
For non-contact level, liquid, volume, and space-occupancy measurement tasks.
Liquid level sensing
Measure the distance to a liquid surface from a fixed reference for level conversion, alarms, and status reporting.
Level sensing
Measure surface distance from the top of a silo or vessel, convert it into level, and make dust, cleaning, and mounting limits explicit.
Volume measurement
Reconstruct surface geometry from multi-point or scanning distance data for volume calculation of bins, piles, or warehouse objects.
Smart transportation
Covers crane positioning, smart parking, smart doors, tailgates, and related sensing tasks.
Powered tailgate
Use distance or distance change to detect a contactless gesture below the tailgate and pass the event to the body controller.
Smart-door anti-collision
Provide distance or area input near a moving door path so the body controller can respond to obstacles.
Road vehicle camera trigger
Trigger a camera or recorder from vehicle distance change while keeping the confirmed TF application scope.
Perimeter and industrial security alerting
Detect objects entering a defined zone and output range events for perimeter and industrial security systems.
Smart parking
Use parking-bay distance change to determine occupancy or trigger a camera, replacing continuous video processing with event-based capture.
IoT
For device-side distance input such as assistive focus, triggers, and warnings.
Assistive focus
Provide target distance to cameras, projectors, or thermal devices so the controller can narrow the focus range.
Smart trigger
Use target distance or distance change to trigger lids, capture, status reporting, or device actions.
Revolving-door safety
Provide distance or presence input in critical revolving-door zones for controller slowdown, stop, and fault handling.
Space occupancy and people counting
Collect distance combinations in an area so the customer system can determine occupancy and people count.
Not sure which solution fits?
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