Autonomous Warehouse Robot — 192-Line LiDAR Navigation
It's 2 a.m. in a −10 °C cold-storage warehouse. The forklifts have gone home — but the robots haven't, and they can't afford to clip a single pallet.
A logistics integrator came to us with a hard brief: build an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that runs round-the-clock through narrow, ever-changing aisles, spots a stray pallet foot from across the room, and keeps its bearings where GPS is useless and the cold freezes lesser sensors solid. Their existing 16-line LiDAR simply couldn't see low obstacles or react far enough ahead at speed.
Our approach
We architected the navigation stack around the Rogersense LiDAR S1 — a 192-line, single-photon sensor with 300 m of reach, a 120° field of view and an automotive ASIL-B, IP67, −40~85 °C build. One roof-mounted S1 floods the aisle ahead with 1.5 million points per second; its PTP-synced timestamps fuse the cloud cleanly with wheel odometry and IMU. On top we built ROS 2 SLAM for mapping and localization, with a dual-echo obstacle layer that shrugs off dust and shrink-wrap glare.
The result
- Centimetre-level localization, even in featureless freezer aisles
- Detects a 10 cm pallet foot at 8 m, and a person beyond 50 m
- Maps a full 300 m corridor in a single pass
- Zero collisions across a 6-week pilot, 20+ hours a day at −10 °C
From sensor selection to a working navigation reference design, Rogersense delivered the hardware, the gateway and the firmware/SDK integration — so the customer's team could focus on their fleet, not the physics.
Evaluate it on your own robot
Teams building a similar AMR, AGV, vehicle, or industrial perception system can purchase the LiDAR S1 development kit and use Rogersense SDK resources and technical support to integrate the sensor into their own platform. We can support C++/Python driver bring-up, ROS 2 integration, PTP time-sync configuration, point-cloud debugging, gateway adaptation, and secondary development for customer-specific workflows.
Engineering support Discuss a complete robot or subsystem project Rogersense can support sensor selection, gateway hardware, firmware, SDK adaptation, navigation reference design, and full system integration. Talk with engineering →
If you want more than a sensor evaluation kit, Rogersense can also take on complete subsystem or machine-development work for robot, vehicle, or industrial automation projects.
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