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Commonly used messages in ROS. Includes messages for actions (actionlib_msgs), diagnostics (diagnostic_msgs), geometric primitives (geometry_msgs), robot navigation (nav_msgs), and common sensors (sensor_msgs), such as laser range finders, cameras, point clouds.
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Created TransformWithCovariance and TransformWithCovarianceStamped. #177

Closed RobertBlakeAnderson closed 2 years ago

RobertBlakeAnderson commented 2 years ago

Created covarianced versions of the transform messages. This was motivated by an application in which our system tries to estimate the poses of two objects relative to each other, in which we are interested in the uncertainty of that estimate.

tfoote commented 2 years ago

This seems reasonable. However as this repo is targeted at ROS 1 distros which are all stabilized now and this would be better to target for future distributions in ros2/common_interfaces Please repropose this addition there.

When you do repropose it there please consider providing examples of your usage. In particular I'd like to understand how you're using the frame_ids of the target objects your estimating versus a transform providing information between coordinate frames as we usually do.