connecting velodyne VLP 16 to drive PX2

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE PX 2 General
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Hi,
We got the following error when we tried to connect our velodyne VLP 16 sensor with drive px2

/usr/local/driveworks-0.3/bin$ ./sample_lidar_replay --ip=192.168.1.201 --port=8308 --device=VELO_VLP16 --scan-frequency=10
Program Arguments:
–device=VELO_VLP16
–file=…/./data/samples/sensors/lidar/lidar_sample.bin
–ip=192.168.1.201
–offscreen=0
–port=8308
–scan-frequency=10

Initialize DriveWorks SDK v0.3.400
Release build with GNU 4.8.4 from v0.3.0-rc8-0-g3eeebea
SDK: Resources mounted from /usr/local/driveworks-0.3/data/resources
SDK: Default GPU Device set to device number 0
SensorFactory::createSensor() → lidar.socket, ip=192.168.1.201,port=8308,device=VELO_VLP16,scan-frequency=10
LidarSocket: no response from Lidar after 500ms
Driveworks exception thrown: DW_SAL_CANNOT_INITIALIZE: LidarSocket: not connected
Cannot connect to Lidar.
Driveworks SDK released

Regards,
KArthikk

2

Hello karthikk,

Could you please check “To determine the IP address for a Velodyne LIDAR” page in DriveWorks_DevGuide_030.pdf? Thanks.

3

Hi,
We are having a similar issue with connecting our velodyne VLP16 sensor to the drive px2.

@Karthikk, @SteveNV, please was this issue fixed? If so how did you fix it?

Thanks,
Jude.