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Reference

Every option Pelorus accepts, in the order it appears in the default configuration. The text is taken from the comments in pelorus_core/default.rl, which is the same file pelorus config generate full writes, so these pages and the configuration on your disk stay in step.

All numbers and physical quantities must be finite. Literal and unit-conversion overflow are rejected automatically.

Block Options Contents
registration 6 How each new scan is aligned to the map
preprocessing 20 What happens to a scan between arriving and being registered
sensor_drivers 11 Devices Pelorus talks to directly instead of subscribing to a topic
lidar 27 Where point clouds come from and what Pelorus may assume about them
imu 28 Where IMU measurements come from and how far they can be trusted
wheel 8 An optional third source of motion
output 34 What Pelorus publishes and where it publishes it
offline 3 How pelorus offline runs
parallelism 6 How much of the machine Pelorus is allowed to use

Of the 143 options, 16 are marked as worth reviewing for every new installation. Those are the ones pelorus config generate recommended writes into a starter configuration.