Hi, I think this paper describe what you want : http:// infoscience.epfl.ch/record/97432/files/Martinelli_ifacnolcos.pdf Pozdrawiam Konrad Banachowicz 2010/11/17 Anh Nguyen > Thanks Wim, > > A bit more research shows that something like below would work since my > robot only move along xy plane and rotate around z axis. But I am still > totally lost on what cov_x, cov_y and rcov_z really mean and how to compute > them. Any suggestion / pointer will be appreciated. > > msg.pose.covariance = {cov_x, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, cov_y, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 99999, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 99999, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 99999, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, rcov_z} > > Best, > > -Andy > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >