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This turned out to be my misunderstanding about the coordinates of the point cloud. I'd assumed that it would be in world coordinates rather than camera coordinates, so hence my tests were giving all kinds of crazy results. Transforming the coordinates to a frame at the base of the robot fixed the problem.

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