Ouster is a manufacturer for 3D-Lidars.
These lidars can be used within SP to generate tracking information out of the 3D point cloud. For details on how to use this object to do blob tracking please refer to this page.
Connection
The Ouster device should be connected to an interface with a link-local address.
This means the interface should have a IP-Address in the range of 169.254.0.0/16.
Setup
To add an Ouster Sensor click within the Object Tree on the (+) and navigate to Sensors.
The “Device IP / Host” needs to be set based on the following format:
DEVICETYPE-SERIAL.local
Device types:
For example, if the devices is an OS1 with a serial number of 982937244514, then the “Device IP / Host” would be:
os1-982937244514.local
Scan lines & frequency
It is possible to define the resolution and frequency of an Ouster lidar.
| Mode | number of columns per rotation | frequency in Hz |
| 512×10 | 512 | 10 |
| 512×20 | 512 | 20 |
| 1024×10 | 1024 | 10 |
| 1024×20 | 1024 | 20 |
| 2048×10 | 2048 | 10 |
| 4096×5 | 4096 | 5 |