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I'm running roscore (kinetic) on turtlebot3 burger (using openCR i think). when launching turtlebot3_robot.launch, i only see /imu. However, the imu_compass driver(link here ) need /imu/declination, which i can't find anywhere in rostopic.
How can i obtain the data /imu/declination?
In the case of that sensor driver, declination can be passed in via parameter, see https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/..., where it defaults to 0.0 if the parameter is not present.
Declination is a function of your location on earth. There are a couple online tools for computing your current declination based on your location such as: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/calc...
If you want to compute declination online based on your location, you can use a software package such as https://github.com/space-physics/WMM2015 to parse the magnetic model and get the declination for your area.
In general, using the value computed via the website is sufficient unless your robot travels over long enough distances to see changes in the declination.
Thank you, but what exactly is "long enough distance"?
At least the website reports declination accuracy to 30 minutes of arc (or 0.5 degrees). Since 1 degree of latitude is about 110km apart, that means that the data is accurate to about 55 km (30ish miles). In that case, I would say that "far enough distance" is at least that far, but in practice probably much further. Where I live, moving a whole degree latitude North or South yields a change in declination of about 0.1 degrees.
30 miles would take quite some time to cover on the turtlebot platform :)
Asked: 2019-10-24 03:41:19 -0600
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Last updated: Oct 24 '19
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