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While some prices might seem high at first sight, you´ll also get a very mature system when willing to pay the price (and it seems a lot of people around the world are willing to do so), so I wouldn´t call prices "crazy", just not super affordable or so ;) .
If you´re on a tighter budget it is certainly possible to acquire a cheaper platform that also is quite capable, but the support and development burden will be on you. In recent years, a lot of quadrotor platforms came out that are quite capable of carrying a LIDAR in principle. Adding a small ARM-based board like the UDOO or Pandaboard allows reading LIDAR data or even doing onboard processing. Depending on the amount of work you want to perform yourself, it should be possible to mount a LIDAR to many platforms, provided they can lift enough payload.
Examples of LIDARs used on less pricy platforms (although the heavier Mikrokopters also are not the cheapest):
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While some prices might seem high at first sight, you´ll also get a very mature system when willing to pay the price (and it seems a lot of people around the world are willing to do so), so I wouldn´t call prices "crazy", just not super affordable or so ;) .
If you´re on a tighter budget it is certainly possible to acquire a cheaper platform that also is quite capable, but the support and development burden will be on you. In recent years, a lot of quadrotor platforms came out that are quite capable of carrying a LIDAR in principle. Adding a small ARM-based board like the UDOO or Pandaboard allows reading LIDAR data or even doing onboard processing. Depending on the amount of work you want to perform yourself, it should be possible to mount a LIDAR to many platforms, provided they can lift enough payload.
Examples of LIDARs used on less pricy platforms (although the heavier Mikrokopters also are not the cheapest):
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