[ros-users] tf2 doc and tutorials broken or misleading

Thibault Kruse kruset at in.tum.de
Thu Sep 26 09:22:27 UTC 2013


Maybe add to this:
https://github.com/ros/geometry_experimental/issues/20
https://github.com/ros/geometry_experimental/issues/21


On 25.09.2013 21:07, Brice Rebsamen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm migrating to tf2. I find that there seems to be many issues with 
> the doc.
>
> For instance the code on the tutorial page on how to write a 
> broadcaster is pointing to an invalid cturtle svn adress: 
> http://wiki.ros.org/tf2/Tutorials/Writing%20a%20tf2%20broadcaster%20%28C%2B%2B%29
>
> Also, the tutorial on migrating the tf broadcaster to tf2 was 
> instructing to use tf2::transform_broadcaster which does not exist, 
> one must use tf2_ros::transform_broadcaster instead. 
> http://wiki.ros.org/tf2/Tutorials/Migration/TransformBroadcaster (I 
> fixed it already).
>
> Similarly, here 
> http://wiki.ros.org/tf2/Tutorials/Adding%20a%20frame%20%28C%2B%2B%29, 
> in section 4.1, the code uses tf2 namespace instead of tf2_ros. Worst: 
> the broadcaster is sending tf2::StampedTransform, where as the 
> sendTransform function accepts geometry_msgs::TransformStamped instead.
>
> All in all, it makes the migration difficult.
> Brice
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