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PCL and ros::Time

asked 2014-05-30 17:49:06 -0500

Yuan Huang
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Hi,

I was looking through this example and.. http://wiki.ros.org/pcl_ros

PointCloud::Ptr msg (new PointCloud); msg->header.stamp = ros::Time::now ();

The second line where the stamp takes the time from the ros::time function does not work. Is there any reason to it or a workaround to directly use the current time?

Basically the compilation error is as follows: error: cannot convert ‘ros::Time’ to ‘uint64_t {aka long long unsigned int}’ in assignment

Running hydro btw. Thanks!

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answered 2014-05-30 18:12:56 -0500

Yuan Huang
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ros::Time time_st = ros::Time::now ();

msg->header.stamp = time_st.toNSec()/1e3;

From what I saw in the pcl_conversion header. for hydro there is no toPCL for time but for indigo there is.

Probably the wiki should be updated since hydro is using the newer PCL.

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