Plugins Related to ROS TF Frames

Overview

Author(s): Ralf Kaestner

Maintainer: Ralf Kaestner ralf.kaestner@gmail.com

Licsense: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Operating system(s): Debian-based Linux, Mac OS X

Package PPA: Not available

Content

This project contains the follwing GUI plugins which may be useful when working with ROS TF frames:

Static TF Plugin for rqt

TF Marker for rviz

Installation

Dependencies

• tf2

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-tf2-ros ros-indigo-tf2-geometry-msgs

• rqt

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rqt

• rviz

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rviz

Building

Create a symlink in your catkin source folder, e.g.:

ln -s ~/git/ros-tf-plugins ~/catkin_ws/src

If you just need certain components of the GUI:

ln -s ~/git/ros-tf-plugins/name_of_the_component ~/catkin_ws/src

Usage

Static TF Plugin for rqt

To launch the standalone rqt plugin, run

rosrun rqt_static_tf rqt_static_tf

To launch the rqt GUI without a perspective, run

rqt --force-discover

This will discover all plugins, which can then be loaded manually.

To delete the default configuration files (in case of problems):

rqt --clear-config

TF Marker for rviz

To launch rviz and discover the plugin, run

rosrun rviz rviz

Bugs & Feature Requests

Please report bugs and feature requests on the Issue Tracker.