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Can I use robot_localization if I only have GPS data?

I want to use human's GPS data (I only have GPS sensor)from smartphone to calculate human's velocity, position(utm). How to configure ekflocalizationnode and navsattransformnode?

Asked by Devin on 2016-02-16 17:11:28 UTC

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Did you resolve your problem?

Asked by fandrade on 2016-05-10 12:58:10 UTC

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Yes. It is possible to use robot_localization if we only have GPS. Maybe you can use gps_common package to change the format of gps message and send it to robot_localization. I use smartphone to receive GPS which is already kalman filtered in gps chips. So I have no need to use robot_localization.

Asked by Devin on 2016-05-10 14:04:27 UTC

And how do you get a world map without robot_localization? I thoght it was necessary.

Asked by fandrade on 2016-05-10 14:28:45 UTC

For my project, I only need relative trajectories of robots. And I can get longitude, latitude, velocity from smartphone using location api. It is enough for me. I don't know what you need for your project.

Asked by Devin on 2016-05-10 15:10:33 UTC

Thanks for your answers. I want to use robot_localization, but i am a bit lost with tf transforms, but i will figure it out.

Asked by fandrade on 2016-05-10 15:40:43 UTC