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Pose Estimation Sensors

A pose estimation sensor may provide information about the absolute or relative position and orientation of a robot. These sensors include gyroscopes, magnetometers, accelerometers, satellite navigation systems, which are often packaged together as a single hardware device with an internal state estimator providing a fused output.

Tutorials

Drivers

1. Composite

2. Satellite Navigation Systems

3. IMU

Clients

1. Satellite Navigation Systems

2. IMU

API

1. Satellite Navigation Systems

The API for Navigation Satellite position information is in the process of standardization with sensor_msgs/NavSatFix recently approved after community review. For interoperability sensor_msgs/NavSatFix should be considered for new packages.

1.1. Messages

sensor_msgs/NavSatFix

gps_common/GPSFix

art_msgs/GpsInfo

2. IMU

The standard message for inertial measurement units is sensor_msgs/Imu.

If you have no estimate for one of the data elements (e.g. your IMU doesn't produce an orientation estimate), please set element 0 of the associated covariance matrix to -1

If you are interpreting this message, please check for a value of -1 in the first element of each covariance matrix, and disregard the associated estimate.

2.1. Messages

sensor_msgs/Imu

bma180/bma180meas

smi540/smi540meas

2.2. Services

diagnostic_msgs/SelfTest

imu/calibrate

Support

microstrain_3dmgx2_imu/Troubleshooting ROS Answers


2024-11-09 13:00