How to use tf.TransformBroadcaster() with ROSJava?

asked 2012-01-21 22:10:32 -0600

Juan Antonio Breña Moral
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Hi,

I am trying to develop basic calculus to use SLAM featues with my robot using ROSJava. I was reading wiki about TF and I saw a code from other development and I saw that it is necessary to use TF.

In the example I saw that script use: tf.TransformBroadcaster(). In ROSJava, I saw a class Transform and I saw a method: transformQuaternion(Quaternion quaternion) and I not sure if this is the way to use TF in ROSJava in the right way to use later to do SLAM.

Many thanks in advance

answered 2012-01-22 20:35:29 -0600

Lorenz

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As far as I know, TF has not been ported yet to the native implementation of rosjava, but the transformBroadcaster should be pretty easy to implement because it doesn't need any fancy transform calculations and bookkeeping to support time traveling. It just publishes a message. All you need to do is creating a publisher to the /tf topic with type tf/tfMessage and publish the transform you want to broadcast by hand.

If you need more features, e.g. requesting the transform between two frames, you can think about porting the old TF implementation for the JNI based rosjava. You can find it here: http://code.in.tum.de/indefero/index.php//p/client-rosjava/source/tree/master/tfjava.

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Hi Lorent, I think that I will port old TF to new ROSJava. To use Navigation Stack it is necessary so, I will port. Many thanks. I will inform about my progress, this week. Cheers