Modeling Solid-State LiDAR Sensor for Optimization of Area Coverage Deployment

This paper presents a comprehensive modeling technique for optimization of solid-state LiDAR sensor deployment. In particular, a performance measure is developed with physical parameters of flashing LiDAR sensors to describe the pose difference of the LiDAR sensor and target object. An area coverage optimization is then addressed with deployment of LiDAR sensor network (LSN) to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the performance measure. An experiment is conducted to verify the proposed resolution criteria of the flash LiDAR sensor and simulations are carried out for validating the developed coverage model for LSN deployment.