How to record transformation

Hi guys, I'm newbie to the ROS world and I want to understand more than what I've understood until now. Is there any command that let me record what the command:

rosrun tf tf_echo /target_fr /reference_fr

print in the terminal window? So to collect for each frame the tranformation between the two frames??

Asked by lolito on 2019-09-30 08:23:08 UTC

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You can do something like rosrun tf tf_echo /target_fr /reference_fr >> tf.txt . This is a linux feature though. If you can tell what you intend to do with it maybe people can help you in that specific regard.

Asked by Choco93 on 2019-09-30 09:03:02 UTC

Thanks Choco93, in LeGO-LOAM i want to understand each one of the reference frame of the system to build up a scheme. In particular i want to save the transformations as a bag file in order to process it with matlab

Asked by lolito on 2019-09-30 09:50:24 UTC

Would recording the /tf and /tf_static topics into a bag file be sufficient for what you are trying to do?

Asked by jarvisschultz on 2019-09-30 09:54:26 UTC

jarvisschultz why do i have to collect /tf_static? I mean using echo for that topic nothing is shown in the shell. I can try to collect all message from /tf. Then i can process them into Matlab??

Asked by lolito on 2019-09-30 10:01:45 UTC

If you have any static transform publishers, they publish on the /tf_static topic. If you'd like to be able to reconstruct your whole tf tree in MATLAB from a bag file, and you have static transforms, then you would need to record both the /tf and the /tf_static topics.

Asked by jarvisschultz on 2019-09-30 10:17:48 UTC