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One option is to add a static transform publisher, then change the frame of the point cloud to match the static transform. The static transform will let you define rotations and translations for your point cloud. Then you can used the tf2 library to perform the translation for you. https://wiki.ros.org/tf2 should give you more information on using TF2, as well as a few tutorials.

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