Missing Ros Message while Running pointcloud to pcd

asked 2019-08-27 15:47:28 -0500

Dina
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Hi,

Can anyone please tell me why I am getting less pcd file compared to the number of my point cloud message in my rosbag while running the

"rosrun pcl_ros pointcloud_to_pcd input:=/velodyne/pointcloud2" command

In other case when I am running the bag to pcd command using the "rosrun pcl_ros bag_to_pcd data.bag /laser_tilt_cloud ./pointclouds" command. I am getting the exact number of pcd files comparing to my point cloud message in my Ros bag.

Any guide will be very helpful.

Thanks

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answered 2019-08-27 23:54:46 -0500

PapaG
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After taking a look at the source code my guess is because the pointcloud_to_pcd has a queue of 1. This means that if it is processing some message n, it is perhaps that by the time the callback is finished running n+1 is no longer the most recent message and thus is ignored.

  sub_ = nh_.subscribe (cloud_topic_, 1,  &PointCloudToPCD::cloud_cb, this);

Whereas bag_to_pcd will just iteratively inspect the messages in the bag.

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@PapaG thank you, I faced the same problem and increasing the queue size solved the problem. Now I am able to save all cloud msgs into pcd.

Mathanraj_Sharma ( 2021-01-09 13:35:39 -0500 )edit

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answered 2019-08-28 02:27:53 -0500

gvdhoorn
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updated 2019-08-28 02:29:20 -0500

@PapaG is not wrong, but I feel that answer misses an important point: the fact that bag_to_pcd uses a fundamentally different way of processing the .bag file.

Pub-sub is typically implemented such that it makes no guarantees about whether you receive a message (there are implementations that do, but ROS 1's is not one of those).

bag_to_pcd does not use pub-sub, it iterates over the messages in the .bag file directly (using the rosbag API, examples here). That is implemented as a blocking operation, and that is why no messages are "lost": there is simply no way to advance to the next message before the current one has been processed.

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Kind of feel like you just expanded the final sentence of my answer into something irrelevant to the actual question being asked...

PapaG ( 2019-08-28 07:00:56 -0500 )edit

I disagree. OP specifically asked:

Can anyone please tell me why I am getting less pcd file compared to the number of my point cloud message in my rosbag while running the
"rosrun pcl_ros pointcloud_to_pcd input:=/velodyne/pointcloud2" command
In other case when I am running the bag to pcd command using the "rosrun pcl_ros bag_to_pcd data.bag /laser_tilt_cloud ./pointclouds" command.

Unless I misunderstood this, this asks for the reason why the nr of msgs is different between bag_to_pcd and pointcloud_to_pcd.

The queue size in pointcloud_to_pcd is almost irrelevant, as even with a queue of a 1000 (or some other large nr), it would still not be possible to guarantee that all messages in a .bag would be processed.

The fundamental difference is the use of pub-sub vs loading the .bag directly.

gvdhoorn ( 2019-08-28 07:10:30 -0500 )edit

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