PCL alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Robotics" category.
Alternatively, view PCL alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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Robotics Library (RL)
The Robotics Library (RL) is a self-contained C++ library for rigid body kinematics and dynamics, motion planning, and control. -
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MOOS-IvP
A set of open source C++ modules for providing autonomy on robotic platforms, in particular autonomous marine vehicles.
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README
Point Cloud Library
Website
The new website is now online at https://pointclouds.org and is open to contributions :hammer_and_wrench:.
If you really need access to the old website, please use the copy made by the internet archive. Please be aware that the website was hacked before and could still be hosting some malicious code.
Continuous integration
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Description
The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.
PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. We are financially supported by a consortium of commercial companies, with our own non-profit organization, Open Perception. We would also like to thank individual donors and contributors that have been helping the project.
Compiling
Please refer to the platform specific tutorials:
Documentation
Contributing
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md.
Issues
To report issues, please read CONTRIBUTING.md#bug-reports.
For general questions on how to use the PCL, please consider one of the following alternatives instead:
- Stack Overflow
for Q&A as well as support for troubleshooting, installation and debugging. Do
remember to tag your questions with the tag
point-cloud-library. - Discord Server for live chat with other members of the PCL community and casual discussions
Citation
We encourage other researchers to cite PCL if they use PCL or its components for their work or baselines. The bibtex entry for the same is
@InProceedings{Rusu_ICRA2011_PCL,
author = {Radu Bogdan Rusu and Steve Cousins},
title = {{3D is here: Point Cloud Library (PCL)}},
booktitle = {{IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}},
month = {May 9-13},
year = {2011},
address = {Shanghai, China},
publisher = {IEEE}
}
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the PCL README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.