Conversion of Point Cloud to laser scan data
We are using Kinect in this robot for replicating the function of expensive laser range scanner. Kinect can deliver Point Cloud data which contains the depth of each point of surrounding. The Point Cloud data is processed and converted to data equivalent to a laser scanner using the ROS depthimage_to_laserscan
package. The main function of this package is to slice a section of the Point Cloud data and convert it to a laser scan equivalent data type. The Pointcloud2
data type is sensor_msgs/PointCloud2
and for the laser scanner, the data type is sensor_msgs/LaserScan
. This package will perform this processing and fake the laser scanner. The laser scanner output can be viewed using RViz. In order to run ...
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