Interactive Series · 5 Parts

How LiDAR Sees,
and How We Teach It

A hands-on tour from the laser pulse to the simulator that trains the whole self-driving stack. Every page works offline on your phone — tap, drag, and explore. (从激光雷达到仿真世界模型)

📱 mobile-ready⚡ works offline🀄 中文标注

Each part builds on the last, walking up the stack from the physical sensor to the data engine that everything depends on. Read them in order, or jump to whatever you need.

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The Series
01

How LiDAR Works

激光雷达原理

The sensor itself: light timed to the nanosecond, point clouds, the five hardware types, their parameters, and 2025–26 market pricing. Fire a pulse and watch the round-trip.

time-of-flightpoint cloudFMCWpricing
02

The Autonomy Stack

自动驾驶技术栈

What consumes the points: the perception pipeline, SLAM (build a map live and watch it drift), sensor fusion, and the point-cloud representations that carry meaning into a model.

SLAMfusionBEVoccupancy
03

Point Clouds as Training Data

点云数据质量

How defects become silent model biases. Break a clean cloud six ways in the Corruption Lab — sparsity, occlusion, noise, motion, weather, ghosting — and see what each teaches a model in training vs. evaluation.

data qualitytrain vs evallabels
3.5

Training for the Sensor That Fails

容错与鲁棒性

The robustness paradox, resolved: corrupt the inputs, never the labels. Drop a sensor and compare a naïve model (collapses) against a dropout-trained one (degrades gracefully). How data and simulation work together.

sensor dropoutgraceful degradationlabel quality
04

Building a LiDAR Simulator

构建激光雷达仿真器

The destination. Assemble a synthetic cloud stage by stage — raycast, raydrop, intensity, noise — and close the domain gap to a real reference. Why raydrop is the crux, and how you prove a sim actually works.

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How to use this

Offline: every page is fully self-contained — once loaded, no internet needed. Keep the folder together so the inter-page links work.

Interact: sliders, toggles, and tap-to-expand cards throughout. Drag any 3D point cloud to rotate it.

中文: hard technical terms carry Chinese annotations in purple, with a glossary in Parts 1–2.