bag_to_pcd Frame Id

asked 2012-05-01 12:53:22 -0600

dtj
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Hi,

I'm processing a kinect point cloud with Electric + Ubuntu 11.10. I've recorded a .bag file with the topics /tf & /camera/depth/points. Using "rosbag play", rviz shows a beautiful point cloud.

I'm trying to convert the individual point clouds to pcd format so I can process them with PCL. Initially, I got this error. So, I followed the response to that question and ran:

rosrun tf static_transform_publisher 0 0 0 0 0 0 base_link openni_camera 100

While I re-recorded the data in hopes of making bag_to_pcd happy. Sadly, when I run

rosrun pcl_ros bag_to_pcd data6_2012_05_01.bag /camera/depth/points d6_expand/

I now get:

"Saving recorded sensor_msgs::PointCloud2 messages on topic /camera/depth/points to d6_expand/

Frame /base_link exists with parent NO_PARENT.

Segmentation fault"

How can I make bag_to_pcd happy? Should I attempt to change the bag_to_pcd code? Specifically,

pcl_ros::transformPointCloud ("/base_link", *cloud, cloud_t, tf_listener);

& if I should change it what should it be? Would

pcl_ros::transformPointCloud ("/tf", *cloud, cloud_t, tf_listener);

work? I'm a new to ROS so I don't fully understand what is going on yet. This seems to be a reoccurring issue on both the ROS questions and PCL users lists so I'd love to get fixed.

Thanks for you help!

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answered 2012-05-01 22:55:16 -0600

Lorenz

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I actually think that bag_to_pcd is broken and I'm not sure if it is actually still maintained. See this ticket. The fact that it requires a TF tree at all makes it really hard to use in many environments. What I did to be able to transform any point cloud is to change it to not do any TF transforms at all, i.e. I got rid of the call to transformPointCloud replaced all occurrences of cloud_t by cloud in the rest of the code. Note that this might break some use cases that actually require transformation of the point cloud to a common frame.

Replacing the target frame "base_link" with "tf" will probably not work. Rather, you could change it to openni_camera.

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I didn't actually do this (what was below worked), but it's a great idea, would totally work, & this should be incorporated into ros. Is there a way I can +1 this somewhere?

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answered 2012-05-02 03:40:14 -0600

Moataz Elmasry
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just out of curiosity, what happens, if you run "rosbag play yourbag.play" in one console, and in the other console "rosrun pcl_ros pointcloud_to_pcd input:=/camera/depth/points"

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This works, thank you!

dtj ( 2012-05-02 22:54:32 -0600 )edit

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