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How to subcribe tf transform from map to odom by gmapping into odom to baselink?

asked 2015-02-06 03:11:15 -0600

mree gravatar image

Hi, I have an odometry obtained from encoders but it is not accurate enough. In long periods, the error accumulated the robot position not accurate. I know that gmapping publish a tf transform from map to odom. Can I subscribe this transform and add it into my odometry or the transform from odom to baselink so that the position of my robot is more accurate?

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answered 2015-02-06 04:09:15 -0600

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Do not add anything manually. TF does that for you. Just use /map -> /base_link instead of /odom -> /base_link to get the robot position.

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Sorry for late reply, but my odometry transform is from odom to base_link. How could achieve directly from /amp ->/base_link

mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-05 04:49:58 -0600 )edit

my tf tree now is /map -> /odom -> base_link

is it what you means as below? /map -> /base_link /map -> /odom

mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-05 04:53:15 -0600 )edit

tf tree looks good. Just use the map->base_link transform and you'll get your pose in the map.

dornhege gravatar image dornhege  ( 2015-03-05 05:56:39 -0600 )edit

Currently I am getting my robot position in map by this way:

odom.pose.pose.position.x = x_move;
odom.pose.pose.position.y = y_move;
odom.pose.pose.position.z = 0.0;
odom.pose.pose.orientation = tf::createQuaternionMsgFromYaw(w_move);
mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-06 01:09:35 -0600 )edit

do you mean i should use this lookuptransform instead of odom to get my robot pose? something like this:

try { listener.lookupTransform("map", "base_link", ros::Time(0), transform_in_map); } catch(tf::TransformException &exception) { ROS_ERROR("%s", exception.what()); }

mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-06 01:10:21 -0600 )edit

Yes! .

dornhege gravatar image dornhege  ( 2015-03-06 03:27:42 -0600 )edit

I have made this change:

odom.pose.pose.position.x = transform.getOrigin().x();
odom.pose.pose.position.y = transform.getOrigin().y();
odom.pose.pose.position.z = 0.0;
odom.pose.pose.orientation.z =tf::getYaw(transform.getRotation());;
mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-10 06:12:56 -0600 )edit

However, when the odom frames move, the robot remains stationary. The transform from map to odom published by gmapping and amcl is not send to the base_link

mree gravatar image mree  ( 2015-03-10 06:14:17 -0600 )edit

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