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Suitable for: Robot joints, links, Sensor coordinate frames, and any other coordinate system that is going to be used as reference.

Not suitable for: Very noisy data.

Also consider: Using a topic rather than tf means you can more easily record / replay the data with rosbag/rxbag, as well as transfer the data between multiple robots.

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