1.6 Using other PCL functions

1.6 Using other PCL functions#

You have now succesfully created a template package to use PCL in a ROS2 setup. Although filtering is nice, you will probably want to use other functions of PCL.

A common pipeline contains filtering, segmentation, clustering and/or feature extraction.

For now, you can start by playing around with:

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You might still experience a lot of CPU usage, and/or low update rates. Solutions to these include changing the update rate of the camera itself. But also offloading the PCL compute to another machine might help.