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tfListener::setExtrapolationLimit, Does this really allow forward extrapolation?

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asked 2012-04-26 04:31:30 -0600

Drclewis
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My motion platform moves at a fairly constant rate. I receive data from the kinect much faster than I do from my position sensor and would like lookupTransform to extrapolate to determine the approximate transform between the fixed kinect and the moving platform.

Does setExtrapolationLimit() do this. I see that it sets max_extrapolation_distance_, but I couldn't see any place where this variable is used in any meaningful way.

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answered 2012-04-26 13:38:14 -0600

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The extrapolation limit defaults to zero and is recommended to stay set as such. When looking up values tf uses linear interpolation to compute the result between the closest two data points. If a query is within the extrapolation limit of the closest datapoint it will use the linear interpolation to extrapolate.

Note this is very noisy and leads to very obscure bugs, and i have not seen it used successfully in any application.

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I tried to turn on extrapolation with "setExtrapolationLimit(ros::Duration(.5))" but I still get these messages: "Lookup would require extrapolation into the future. Requested time 1359401058.315669537 but the latest data is at time 1359401058.214494031". The difference is only 101ms ...

brice rebsamen ( 2013-02-16 12:19:02 -0600 )edit

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