The PCL Library

In this module you will be working on processing point cloud data to find obstacles. All the code will be done in a C++ environment, so some familiarity with C++ will definitely be helpful. PCL is an open source C++ library for working with point clouds. You will be using it to visualize data, render shapes, and become familiar with some of its built in processing functions. Some documentation for PCL can be found here .

PCL is widely used in the robotics community for working with point cloud data, and there are many tutorials available online for using it. There are a lot of built in functions in PCL that can help to detect obstacles. Built in PCL functions that will be used later in this module are Segmentation, Extraction, and Clustering.