ros-perception / calibration

Provides a toolchain to calibrate sensors and URDF robot models.
http://www.ros.org/wiki/calibration
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Zero channels support #14

Closed dgossow closed 11 years ago

dgossow commented 11 years ago

Re-opened version of #13.

In addition to settlerlib support for empty chains, this also adds the ability to specify a variance for the x, y and z axis that is added on top of the covariance matrix computed using the kinematic model.

This way, you can have a chain with 0 or 1 joint in it, or a longer chain with only coaxial joints, in which case you would end up with a non-invertible covariance matrix.

The system.yaml would e.g. look like this:

sensors:
  chains:
    floor_chain_0:
      root: base_link
      tip: base_footprint
      cov:
       joint_angles: []
       translation: [0.05, 0.05, 0.005]
      gearing: [1.0]