Designed to Sense
Built to Respond.
A new perspective on distance.
LARS brings 8×8 time-of-flight ranging to competitive robotics, giving teams more spatial information to work with when building smarter robot behavior.
More than a
distance reading.
A single distance measurement only tells part of the story. LARS is designed around an array of measurements, opening up new ways for teams to incorporate spatial information into robot control.
Multi-zone sensing
Sixty-four ranging zones provide a broader picture of what is in front of the sensor than a single-point measurement.
Robot-ready thinking
Designed with FRC integration in mind, including CAN communication and software resources for teams.
Designed to integrate
Use ranging information as an input to your own mechanisms, control loops, and autonomous strategies.
See the space
around you.
Explore a simulated 8×8 distance map. Each cell represents an individual measurement zone. Select different cells or generate another scene to see how distance can vary across the array.
This is a simulated visualization, not live data from a connected sensor.
Built for real problems.
Ranging becomes useful when it helps a robot make a decision. LARS is intended to support creative approaches to robot awareness and positioning.
Mechanism positioning
Explore distance-based feedback for mechanisms approaching targets, field elements, and scoring locations.
Autonomous routines
Incorporate spatial distance measurements into robot logic, helping your code respond to what the sensor detects.
Engineering,
without the guesswork.
Review the hardware overview and software resources before integrating LARS into your robot. Final operating details should be confirmed against the documentation for your hardware revision.
Build with better data.
Interested in bringing LARS into your next robotics project? Contact Pennington Laboratories for availability and purchasing information.