Visualizing the particle cloud

The particle cloud around the robot can be enabled using the PoseArray display topic. Here the PoseArray topic is /particlecloud displayed in RViz. The PoseArray type is renamed as Amcl particles:

  • Topic: /particlecloud
  • Type: geometry_msgs/PoseArray
Figure 13: Visualizing AMCL particles

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