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First, something to clarify perhaps:
Is it possible to have the planning scene monitor subscribe to
The planning scene does not subscribe to anything, it is either the PointCloudOctomapUpdater or the DepthImageOctomapUpdater that is responsible for updating the planning scene with information coming from either point clouds or depth images.
With that out of the way:
Is it possible to have the planning scene monitor subscribe to both point cloud 2 topics so it can create the octomap?
No, both plugins only subscribe to a single topic (here for the PointCloudOctomapUpdater). So they can't subscribe to multiple topics.
Or do I have to concatenate the two point clouds using PCL [..]
I don't believe this should be necessary: if you have both camera drivers publish on the same topic, and your TF is setup correctly, the updater plugin should be able to do all of the work with the two clouds.
Something to keep in mind though: in the past the updater plugins locked the planning scene for every update they did. This locks out the rest of MoveIt from using the planning scene, leading to delays in planning. With high enough frame rates it could even lead to starvation of the motion planning part.
With two drivers publishing to the same topic this might become even more of an issue as you now potentially have 2xFPS compared to a situation with only a single camera.
I'm not sure you will run into this issue, or whether things have improved significantly since I last checked, but it may be something to be careful with.
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First, something to clarify perhaps:
Is it possible to have the planning scene monitor subscribe to
The planning scene does not subscribe to anything, it is either the PointCloudOctomapUpdater or the DepthImageOctomapUpdater that is responsible for updating the planning scene with information coming from either point clouds or depth images.
With that out of the way:
Is it possible to have the planning scene monitor subscribe to both point cloud 2 topics so it can create the octomap?
No, both plugins only subscribe to a single topic (here for the PointCloudOctomapUpdater). So they can't subscribe to multiple topics.
Or do I have to concatenate the two point clouds using PCL [..]
I don't believe this should be necessary: if you have both camera drivers publish on the same topic, and your TF is setup correctly, the updater plugin should be able to do all of the work with the two clouds.
An alternative might be to try and see whether it is possible to configure multiple instances of the same plugin in the sensors .yaml file. Each of the instances could listen to a different topic.
See Perception Pipeline Tutorial for the general tutorial.
I'm not sure what would be better, performance wise. I would actually be very interested to hear your experiences.
Something to keep in mind though: in the past the updater plugins locked the planning scene for every update they did. This locks out the rest of MoveIt from using the planning scene, leading to delays in planning. With high enough frame rates it could even lead to starvation of the motion planning part.
With two drivers publishing to the same topic this might become even more of an issue as you now potentially have 2xFPS compared to a situation with only a single camera.
I'm not sure you will run into this issue, or whether things have improved significantly since I last checked, but it may be something to be careful with.
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