PCL people detector problem [closed]

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@CarolineQ Im using the same program and im trying to send the information of the distance of the person detected to another node but im unable to do it. Do you have any idea how to put a publisher in the code and make it work? I would really appreciate some help, thanks

You need a loop in your node and a spinOnce in this loop. I added a publisher in the same way that in other nodes. I publish the information about the user just after this for loop : for(std::vector<pcl::people::personcluster<pointt> >::iterator it = clusters.begin(); it != clusters.end(); ++it)

@CarolineQ thanks a lot, could you please post the part of the code where you created the publisher, that im having trouble making it work. Also to compile this detector it takes very long so every time y try to change something and test it, it takes a long time is this normal?? one again thanks

I create the publisher as any other publishers : ros::Publisher _userInfoPub = _node.advertise<msgtype>( "/path_to_topic", 1); What are your problems exactly ? Concerning the time to compile it I don't have problems, it depends also of your computer...

@CarolineQ i have two problems fist one is that i cant make it work with the link you gave, because when i run cmake it does not creat the exe do you know why? So i downloades from ros in a package called fuerte-unstable-devel. In the code main_ground_based_people_detection.cpp after the loop you said ros::init(argc, argv, "detectCG"); ros::NodeHandle n; ros::Publisher cg_pub = n.advertise<std_msgs::string>("my_string", 1000); std_msgs::StringPtr str(new std_msgs::String); str->data = "hello world"; cg_pub.publish(str); ros::Rate loop_rate(10); but it does not work do you see a problem?? also i did not understand the loop you said i needed how is it done? once again i really appreciate your help

When I spoke about a loop it was sth like : while (ros::ok()). Have you ever try writing simple publishers in ROS before doing this ? http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingPublisherSubscriber%28c%2B%2B%29 I have no idea which version you are using. For my part, I took the code from the link and did some modifications to adapt it to ROS and to my project.

@CarolineQ thanks, i have done some subscribers and publishers and they have worked fine. The thing is that ive been unable to make the code create me the exe file. When i do cmake on the file it does not give an exe. do you now why this might happen? As a backup i installed the pcl17 and pcl17_ros wich also included the same code and this did bring the exe but im unable to modify the code to add the publisher. Did you need this packages to make your program work?? Last when i do the cmake i get this weird looking thing

-- looking for PCL_TRACKING -- Found PCL: /usr/lib/libboost_system-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_mpi-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-mt.so;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_common.so;debug;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_common.so;optimized;/opt/ros/fuerte/lib/libflann_cpp_s.a;debug;/opt/ros/fuerte/lib/libflann_cpp_s-gd.a;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_kdtree.so;debug;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_kdtree.so;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_octree.so;debug;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_octree.so;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_search.so;debug;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_search.so;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_sample_consensus.so;debug;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_sample_consensus.so;optimized;/usr/local/lib/libpcl_filters.so;debug;/usr/local ----Also when i try to compile it with pcl17 i get "undefined reference to `ros::init"