February 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 20m
English
Content preview from Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
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Working with point cloud data
We can handle the point cloud data from Kinect or the other 3D sensors for performing a wide variety of tasks, such as 3D object detection and recognition, obstacle avoidance, 3D modeling, and so on. In this section, we will see some basic functionalities: using the PCL library and its ROS interface. We will discuss the following examples:
- How to publish a point cloud in ROS
- How to subscribe and process a point cloud
- How to write point cloud data to a PCD file
- How to read and publish a point cloud from a PCD file