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To: Melonee Wise
CC: hector, User discussions
Subject: Re: [ros-users] accelerometer and tilt support + depth function
On 17/11/10 10:49, Melonee Wise wrote:
> Yes it's a branch but anyone is welcome to take my changes. I haven't
> added the accelerometer to the driver but I can add it (is there any
> preference on units), I am also trying to find if the current tilt
> position is published by the kinect so I can add a get method.


It would be great if you could add the accelerometer. You can of course
start from my implementation in [1] (my branch of old libfreenect, I
will probably throw it away and switch to yours once the accelerometer
are integrated in it). For the units, I suggest to use the SI unit
(m/s^2) if possible, but otherwise the raw values would do.

I do not know whether there is a way to retrieve the tilt position, it
would be good, as it would allow to publish it as a tf transform.
However, depending on my experience, the tilt link is not very stiff,
especially if the kinect is not lying on a flat surface.

Kind regards,

Stéphane

[1] https://github.com/stephanemagnenat/libfreenect

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