SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE-DRIVEN DATAPOINT AGGREGATION OF LIDAR DATAPOINTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN LIDAR SENSOR AND HOST COMPUTING DEVICE AND APPLICATION OF SAME

A system and a method for performing exchange of lidar data points between a lidar sensor and a host computing device are provided. The lidar sensor (110) functions as a slave and the host computing device (120) functions as a master in a master-slave lidar connection. The lidar sensor (110) stores a slave payload size range, and the host computing device (120) stores a master payload size range. When the lidar connection is initiated, the host computing device (120) and the lidar sensor ( 110) perform handshaking to determine an overlapping range between the master and slave payload size ranges, and to negotiate an acceptable datapoint payload size based on the overlapping range. Once the handshaking is complete, the lidar connection may be performed using the acceptable data point payload size as a payload size thereof. Thus, the payload size is independent of a maximum transmission unit (MTU) of an Ethernet.