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stop

Stop streaming point clouds from Velodyne LiDAR sensor

Since R2020b

Add-On Required: This feature requires the Lidar Toolbox Support Package for Velodyne LiDAR Sensors add-on.

Description

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stop(lidarobj) stops streaming point clouds from the Velodyne LiDAR® sensor specified by lidarobj. All existing point clouds continue to exist in the buffer.

Examples

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When you are finished working with point clouds from your sensor, you can stop streaming the data.

Create a velodynelidar object for an HDL-32E sensor. Then start streaming point clouds. Once the start function is called, streaming continues in the background.

v = velodynelidar('HDL32E');
start(v)

When you are finished working with point clouds, stop streaming. All the data from streaming remains available in the buffer. You can view the Streaming property. It should be 0, indicating that the sensor has started streaming.

stop(v)
v.Streaming
ans =

  logical

   0

The point clouds that are in the buffer when stop is called remain available. They are not deleted until start is called again. Use read to access the available point cloud data.

Input Arguments

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Velodyne LiDAR sensor connection created by using velodynelidar, specified as a velodynelidar object.

Version History

Introduced in R2020b