pointcloud_to_laserscan, how to change the slice height

asked 2017-04-19 05:07:18 -0600

anflores
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Hi everyone, I am running the pointcloud_to_laserscan package successfully with a Kinect. Now I want to change the height/angle at which the laser takes the slice from the pointcloud. Probably I am missing something, but none of the parameters described in [ http://wiki.ros.org/pointcloud_to_las... ] do what I want. I supposed that the parameters min_height and max_height were defined for this. But in stead, this parameters only select the points of the slice that are within this height range. Any guess?

Thanks!

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answered 2017-04-19 06:53:43 -0600

Karl Damkjær Hansen
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Having just looked at the code; the height parameters seem to slice in the pointcloud orthogonal to the z axis in the height interval between min_height and max_height.

There are the parameters angle_min and angle_max, they are referring to the width of the simulated laserscan. So, that is not what you are looking for either.

I guess you may need to transform the pointcloud that are going into the pointcloud_to_laserscan, maybe just changing the reference frame.

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Indeed no such parameter, how about forking the code and adding one? (I could use it as well sometimes soon)

Humpelstilzchen ( 2017-04-20 05:14:45 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-03-25 17:39:50 -0600

jdwolk
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Humplestilzzchen - no need to fork, Karl was spot on

You can control the planar slice in the z-axis with the frame you output to via the target_frame param. In my case I was looking for objects at 6ft high so I created a static transform in my launch file:

<arg name="laser_height" default="1.829" />  <node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher"' name="laser_height_offset" args="0 0 $(arg laser_height) 0 0 0 /base_link /laser_height 100 />

This creates the /laser_height frame in tf. Then in the config for pointcloud_to_laserscan I have:

<node pkg="pointcloud_to_laserscan" type="pointcloud_to_laserscan_node" name="scan"> <remap from="cloud_in" to="your/Pointcloud2/topic/name" /> <rosparam> target_frame: laser_height ...other params here... </rosparam> </node>

Now you should have a laserscan slice at the level specified by the laser_height param (6ft / 1.829m in my case above).

The min_height and max_height params look like they define a band of points from the pointcloud to operate on; anything outside is ignored.

Thanks Karl!

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