This is more useful for teleoperation than autonomy (my projects are more into 3D mapping and teleoperation than autonomy).
I have recently open sourced framework for hardware accelerated point cloud streaming.
It is possible to see how it works here.
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Btw, I just illustrated it on my rover (it is the end use case driving the development but the technology is independent software).