diff --git a/launch/include/pointcloud_to_laserscan.launch b/launch/include/pointcloud_to_laserscan.launch
index bbc0542229f83788d5e18dc75843c9b69b0030e0..37f6a23d5fadea803eded5cd400be2d02f65f31b 100644
--- a/launch/include/pointcloud_to_laserscan.launch
+++ b/launch/include/pointcloud_to_laserscan.launch
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 <launch>
 
   <arg name="ns"            default="robot"/>
+  <arg name="config_file"   default="$(find iri_ana_rosnav)/params/pointcloud_to_laserscan.yaml" />
   <arg name="scan_topic"    default="$(arg ns)/scan"/>
   <arg name="cloud_topic"   default="$(arg ns/points"/>
   <arg name="output" default="screen" />
@@ -17,25 +18,7 @@
           launch-prefix="$(arg launch_prefix)">
       <remap from="/$(arg ns)/scan"     to="$(arg scan_topic)"/>
       <remap from="/$(arg ns)/cloud_in" to="$(arg cloud_topic)"/>
-      <rosparam>
-          target_frame: "" #camera_link # Leave disabled to output scan in pointcloud frame
-          transform_tolerance: 0.01
-          min_height: -0.125
-          max_height: 0.125
-          angle_min: -3.14159 #-1.5708 # -M_PI/2
-          angle_max: 3.14159  #1.5708 # M_PI/2
-          angle_increment: 0.0087 # M_PI/360.0
-          scan_time: 0.3333
-          range_min: 0.1
-          range_max: 40.0
-          use_inf: true
-
-          # Concurrency level, affects number of pointclouds queued for processing and number of threads used
-          # 0 : Detect number of cores
-          # 1 : Single threaded
-          # 2->inf : Parallelism level
-          concurrency_level: 1
-      </rosparam>
+      <rosparam file="$(arg config_file)" command="load" />
     </node>
     
   </group>
diff --git a/params/pointcloud_to_laserscan.yaml b/params/pointcloud_to_laserscan.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7176520ffe36b88392c5f3ab6d70d7fb110d393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/params/pointcloud_to_laserscan.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+target_frame: ""
+# Leave target_frame disabled to output scan in pointcloud frame
+transform_tolerance: 0.1
+min_height: -0.1
+max_height: 0.5
+angle_min: -3.14159 #-1.5708 # -M_PI/2
+angle_max: 3.14159  #1.5708 # M_PI/2
+angle_increment: 0.0087 # M_PI/360.0
+scan_time: 0.3333
+range_min: 0.1
+range_max: 40.0
+use_inf: true
+
+# Concurrency level, affects number of pointclouds queued for processing and number of threads used
+# 0 : Detect number of cores
+# 1 : Single threaded
+# 2->inf : Parallelism level
+concurrency_level: 1
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