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@castvier castvier commented Jun 2, 2025

Summary

This PR merges all the lidar integration development work from the lidar-integration-dev-fall2024 branch into main.

Key Features

  • Complete Velodyne lidar decoder implementation (C++)
  • Real-time 3D point cloud visualization
  • Enhanced server stability and startup robustness
  • Updated UI with lidar controls and visualization
  • Comprehensive visualization improvements documentation

Changes

  • 52 files changed (8,314 additions, 1,030 deletions)
  • New lidar core components and build system
  • Enhanced React components for 3D rendering
  • Updated styling and responsive design
  • Added documentation for future development

Ready for review and merge to main.

- Improved point cloud filtering to retain more valid points
- Enhanced WebSocket server stability with better port cleanup
- Added IPv4/IPv6 support for process termination
- Reduced point size in visualization for better clarity
- Fixed server cleanup to prevent port binding issues

Technical changes:
- Modified distance threshold from 0 to 0.001m in lidar_core.py
- Updated port cleanup logic to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 bindings
- Increased cleanup wait times for more reliable process termination
- Adjusted point cloud visualization size from 0.05 to 0.02

Resolves issues:
- Point count reduction from filtering
- WebSocket server port binding failures
- Visualization clarity with large point sizes
@castvier castvier requested review from Lcedeno14, paramdesai321 and xunfei-jiang and removed request for paramdesai321 June 2, 2025 01:02
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