/veloVLPview

Velodyne VLP-16 LIDAR live point cloud viewer

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Simple Live Point Cloud Viewer for Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR

This repository contains a simple Python-based live point cloud viewer for the Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR sensor. The viewer uses PyQtGraph for visualization and can handle real-time data streaming from the sensor.

Features

  • Real-time Visualization: Visualize point cloud data in real-time.
  • Scatter Plot with Color Mapping: Points are color-coded based on their distance.
  • Keyboard Interaction: Press R to flush the point cloud data.

Requirements

  • Python 3.x
  • NumPy
  • PyQt5
  • PyQtGraph
  • Matplotlib