[ros-users] tf and quaternions

[Wim Meeussen]

Raph,


> I am also fighting hard to grasp the concepts of quaternions.
> Could you explain how to get back the Pich, Roll and Yaw values from a
> quaternion?
> I understand I should come back to the axis-angle representation, but how to
> extract the roll value in radians for example?

Wikipedia is a good reference:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_between_quaternions_and_Euler_angles>

You also don't have to implement these conversions yourself, there are
a number of great libraries around that can have well tested
implementations. The KDL library is a good example.
<http://www.orocos.org/kdl/geometry>

Hope this helps,

Wim




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