It can work excellent in all kinds of indoor environment and outdoor environment without direct sunlight exposure. RPLIDAR A1 is basically a laser triangulation measurement system.
And it can be configured up to 10 hz maximum. RPLIDAR A1’s scanning frequency reached 5.5 hz when sampling 1450 points each round. The produced 2D point cloud data can be used in mapping, localization and object/environment modeling. The system can perform 360 degree scan within 12-meter range (6-meter range of A1M8-R4 and the belowing models).
RPLIDAR A1 is a low cost 360 degree 2D laser scanner ( LIDAR) solution developed by SLAMTEC.