Re: [ros-users] vicon_mocap package

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Author: User discussions
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To: Patrick Bouffard
CC: User discussions
Subject: Re: [ros-users] vicon_mocap package
I think our use cases are a little different. Your code (I think) broadcasts
the current transform reading in the motion capture studio. I want to be
able to examine files saved in whatever format and watch them in Rviz.
I've been looking at ASF/AMC files, and don't know as much about C3D, but I
was thinking that a msg that contains a structured pointcloud (i.e. with a
skeleton) would be common to all MoCap systems.

-David!!

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Patrick Bouffard <
> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I haven't had a chance to write any documentation yet. What do you
> mean by data structures? msg files? I'm only using standard ones - a
> TF frame is broadcast and also a geometry_msgs/TransformStamped
> message is published.
>
> I think somewhere in the depths of ros-pkg or maybe it was wg-ros-pkg,
> I found something to do with PhaseSpace and I think it defined its own
> messages for the marker locations and such.
>
> Not sure when I'll get the chance to write up some docs but in the
> meantime, I can try to answer questions if you have them. The node
> should be pretty straightforward to use if your use case is similar to
> mine--take a look at the test.launch file.
>
> Cheers,
> Pat
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, David Lu!! <> wrote:
> > Hey Pat,
> > Is there any documentation for your node? I've just started looking at
> > motion capture stuff and yours was the only related node I found. I'd be
> > interested to see if there was some common data structures that can be
> used
> > for other formats as well.
> > -David!!
> >
>