On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ivan Dryanovski <ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there established conventions about the frame_id of imu messages, and the IMU pipeline of filters/publishers?

The problem becomes even worse when we consider that the Imu message [1] combines orientation data with linear acc. and angular velocities. The linear acceleration and angular velocities are usually provided in the sensor's own frame, but the orientation only makes sense in a fixed frame. 

[1] http://www.ros.org/doc/api/sensor_msgs/html/msg/Imu.html