I want to use dataset at https://ingmec.ual.es/datasets/lidar3d-pf-benchmark/ in my project. The available map is .simplemap. What I understand is it stores both map and the robot poses as well. I want to get the point cloud representation of this map (which later I can convert into octomap) as well as vehicles ground truth pose in the map.
I have been able to get the CPose3DPDF from which I obtained CPose3d which I believe is the desired vehicle's ground truth pose. Please correct me if I am wrong. Now I have two problems. First the length of trajectory is just 97 which makes me suspicious about my code to obtain it. Second is about the CSensoryFrame which I obtain along with CPose3DPDF. When I get CObservation by doing CSensorFrame->getObservationByIndex and write to a file, it gives me idea that it stores velodyne readings. But I am unable to recover point cloud from it. Could anyone please guide me to a tool which can convert a .simplemap into a point cloud or an octomap representation and obtain vehicle's pose out of it as well. Many thanks in advance.
For the records: this one was answered here:
Your assumptions were all correct.
I realized the full UAL campus map was not included into the downloads. It's now available to download inside 2018-02-26-ual-campus-map.zip, at the bottom of this dataset page.
You can also regenerate the pointcloud, octomap from the .simplemap using the app application-observations2map. Example .ini files can be found under
MRPT/share/mrpt/config_files/*You can also visually inspect .simplemap files with the robot-map-gui app.