/particle_cloud#

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/particle_cloud Quick Facts

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Message type

nav2_msgs/msg/ParticleCloud

Direction

➡️ you normally subscribe to this topic.

Array of poses representing the different robot pose hypotheses managed by amcl

Quick snippets#

Check the publication rate#
$ ros2 topic hz /particle_cloud
Display the data published on the topic#
$ ros2 topic echo /particle_cloud

How to use in your code#

Subscribe to the topic using Python#
 1#!/usr/bin/env python
 2
 3import rclpy
 4from rclpy.node import Node
 5
 6from nav2_msgs.msg import ParticleCloud
 7
 8
 9class ParticleCloudSubscriber(Node):
10
11    def __init__(self):
12        super().__init__('particle_cloud_subscriber')
13        self.subscription = self.create_subscription(
14            ParticleCloud,
15            '/particle_cloud',
16            self.listener_callback,
17            10)
18
19    def listener_callback(self, msg):
20        # see https://docs.ros2.org/latest/api/nav2_msgs/msg/ParticleCloud.html
21        # for the msg structure
22        self.get_logger().info('I heard: "%s"' % msg.data)
23
24
25if __name__ == '__main__':
26    rclpy.init(args=args)
27
28    subscriber = ParticleCloudSubscriber()
29
30    rclpy.spin(subscriber)
31
32    rclpy.shutdown()