[ros-users] Publishing a vector of point clouds

Radu Bogdan Rusu rusu at willowgarage.com
Fri Jan 21 17:15:40 UTC 2011


Nicolas,


On 01/21/2011 06:40 AM, Nicolás Alvarez Picco wrote:
> As far as I know it is not possible to publish pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>. You need to use the function
> pcl::toROSMsg(, ); to transform the pcl point cloud to a sensor_msgs point cloud and the publish it!

Luckily - we added support for that/fixed it in trunk :)

Check this: http://point-cloud-library-pcl-mailing-list.967500.n3.nabble.com/PCL-0-7-Released-td2124937.html

We'll release 0.8 as soon as we get Windows support rock solid.

Cheers,
Radu.
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http://pointclouds.org

>
> Nicolas
>
>
>  > From: bcharrow at seas.upenn.edu
>  > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:07:40 -0500
>  > To: ros-users at code.ros.org
>  > Subject: Re: [ros-users] Publishing a vector of point clouds
>  >
>  > The following command will find all files that use a particular message:
>  >
>  > rosmsg users package/message_type
>  >
>  > You can then search the returned files for a message file that contains an array of the message.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Ben
>  >
>  > On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:32 AM, cmuell2s wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hello all,
>  > >
>  > > I stuck at a small problem. I would like to publish a vector/array of
>  > > pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>.
>  > > I couldn't find a sensor_msg or std_msg which would do it, did I
>  > > overlooked sth?
>  > >
>  > > Does anybody have a clue? Maybe a link to an example?
>  > >
>  > > Thanks a lot for any comment.
>  > >
>  > > Christian Mueller
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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