SVO 2.0 as odom feedback

[mrsp]

Hi

Digging up a bit in your code, your feedback is based on an instance of "state_predictor", have you tried using your SVO 2.0 as your odometry feedback?

Thx in advance

[mfaessle]

The state_predictor is only responsible to compensate for latencies of the state estimate and the resulting control command. When the state estimate arrives at the controller, it already has a certain age from which it is predicted forward until the current time. Similarly, we can consider delays of the resulting control command, e.g. when using a wireless link to send commands, by integrating the state estimate forward based on previously applied control commands.

The origin of the state estimate does not matter as long as it is passed to the controller as a nav_msgs/Odometry message. And of course we have used SVO 2.0 together with the Multi Sensor Fusion framework (https://github.com/ethz-asl/ethzasl_msf) to get a state estimate. This is how all our basic demos work, e.g. https://youtu.be/7-kPiWaFYAc