[SOLVED] xsens imu with robot_localization

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Hello to everybody, Im still new to ros and allready tryed really long to find a solution for my problem but all the things i tryed werent really helping.

The problem im having is that i want to connect an xsens-mti imu to my robot but cant get it to work under amcl together with the odom.

I tryed to implement the imu into the robot_localization and also tryed in the robot_localization to comment the odom0 and just use the imu0 data. The point is that the odom0 is working nicely and robot_localization is publishing data under /odom and /odometry/filtered. As soon as i comment the odom0 parts and just want to use the imu0 the /odom is still publishing but the /odometry/filtered which is as i think published by the robot_localization.launch is not showing any data. not from the odom and not from the imu.

You might need to know that my robot has a laser connected to it which, i think, till now computed a kind of imu to use together with the amcl. If im wrong please crrect me. The laser is no used under robot_localization. Just under amcl it is used. I also tryed to turn the laser off to see if the imu is working together with the odom but couldnt find a way to be sure about this because as far as i think my imu is not used in amcl.

The Imu itself works nicely. i can see the data published by the xsens under the topic /imu/data. But as soon as i try to use the /imu/data in my robot_localization as a value for the imu0, i get this error message:

WARNING: failed to transform from /imu->base_footprint for imu0 message received at 1442471593.559769106. No transform exists from source to target frame.

So my suggestion now is that the imu is not used by the robot localization if im not pushing the /imu/data to the robot localization. I mean if i am not using the /imu/data as the value for the imu0. Again if im wrong with this please let me know.

Also if you need more data to find out a solution for me please let me know which data and how to collect it.

Thank you very much for your help and excuse me if im confusing you or making it really hard to understand my problem :-)