Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 49, Issue S2, 20200179(2020)

Real-time and high-precision ranging method for large dynamic range of imaging lidar

Bai Yang, Tang Wei, Xu Shiyue, Yang Zhenyuan, Lv Ming′ai, Yu Chen, Gao Jianbo*, Zheng Jie, Liu Yaping, and Qin Ying
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    In order to meet the application needs of unmanned driving and vehicle obstacle avoidance, imaging lidar usually needs to identify target signals in a large dynamic range of several meters to several hundred meters. Limited by volume and cost, lidar usually does not have automatic gain control function. Therefore, high precision measurement of saturated to unsaturated echo signals is one of the problems that imaging lidar needs to solve. Traditional imaging lidars mostly use the TDC method. This method is effective for the saturated waveforms of the targets nearby, but has limited imaging ability for unsaturated echo signals far away. Therefore, a method of full waveform matching based on high speed ADC was proposed. The high-precision peak position of the echo pulse was obtained by sliding matching the echo pulse and the template waveform. And an optimized fast algorithm on FPGA was implemented, which improved the execution speed. The accuracy of ranging was ensured and the effective imaging range of the imaging lidar was increased. Through a large number of experiments, the imaging lidar has a ranging accuracy of 2.7 cm and an effective imaging range of more than 200 meters.

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    Bai Yang, Tang Wei, Xu Shiyue, Yang Zhenyuan, Lv Ming′ai, Yu Chen, Gao Jianbo, Zheng Jie, Liu Yaping, Qin Ying. Real-time and high-precision ranging method for large dynamic range of imaging lidar[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2020, 49(S2): 20200179

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    Category: 激光器与激光光学

    Received: May. 14, 2020

    Accepted: Jul. 14, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 5, 2021

    The Author Email: Jianbo Gao (gaojbjr@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/irla20200179

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