Pose transformation between links
I have a robot with 8 links. How do I get the pose transformation between the links? (I have a camera plugin, and I wish to get the pose of one of the links of the camera, which isnt exposed)
I have gone through tf2 transformations, however, they provide the transformation between frames and not links. For instance, when I move a link in the Gazebo simulator, I can see that the pose of the link changes in RVIZ, however, when I use the command
rosrun tf tf_echo frame1 frame2
Where frame2 is the link that is moving. (I am using robot_state_publisher for this). It gives a constant value. I suspect that, even though the links are moving, the frames seem to be constant. This can be verified, when I set my fixed frame to frame2, there seems to be no relative movement.
What is the relationship between links and frame? How do I get the relative pose of two links using tf
Frames are links, links are frames.
If the transform you retrieve remains constant, it probably is (transforms tell you the translation + rotation body-relative (so if you ask for the transform from
frame1toframe2, you'll get it relative toframe1).Hello. I can however, see that my link position values are changing. i.e. when I view my link states in rviz, I can see that link2 (which as you say is the same as frame2) is constantly changing while link1 (world) is constant. Yet the transformation command I give always gives a constant value. I reckon that my frames are being static, despite links moving.
It would help if you could show both a screenshot of
rqt_graphand a copy-paste of whatever urdf/xacro or other sources of TF you are using.Otherwise we'll just end up guessing.
Hello. I solved the error. There was a problem with my joint state publisher. Apologies
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Apologies, I am new to the community. I have done that. Thanks