Changelog for package robot_localization

3.5.3 (2024-04-16)

  • TF Prefix Bug (#876)

  • Fixing angle clamping for humble (#854)

  • Contributors: Tom Moore, rafal-gorecki

3.5.2 (2023-12-20)

  • fix header timestamp (#852) Co-authored-by: Luke Chang <luke@boxfish.nz>

  • Wait for odometry message before setting manual datum so that the base and world frame names can be set. (#835) * wait for odom msg before setting manual datum

  • Utm using geographiclib humble branch (#834) * Add single test for navsat_conversions * Add a southern point to the navsat_transform test * LLtoUTM using GeographicLib * Use GeographicLib for UTMtoLL conversions * Linting * Forgot include * Fix compilation * Calculate gamma because it’s a function output and was supplied before * Also test for gamma conversion * Align naming and install

  • Contributors: Luke Chang, Tim Clephas, Tom Greier

3.4.0 (2022-05-05)

  • Fix angles dependency (#747) * Add angles to CMakeLists.txt

  • Using angles library to normalize angles (#739) * Using angles library for innovation angle normalization

  • Read predict_to_current_time from ROS parameters (#737) Co-authored-by: Zygfryd Wieszok <zwieszok@autonomous-systems.pl>

  • Fixed state history reversion (#736) Co-authored-by: Zygfryd Wieszok <zwieszok@autonomous-systems.pl>

  • Fixing code style divergence for ament_uncrustify in main ROS2 branch (#743)

  • This fixes #732 (broadcast_cartesian_transform) (#733)

  • Contributors: Anish, Marek Piechula, RoboTech Vision, Tony Najjar, Zygfryd Wieszok

3.3.1 (2022-02-25)

  • Moving to C++17 support (#725)

  • SHARED linking for Geographiclib (#624) (#712) * remove GeographicLib specific linking option Co-authored-by: Achmad Fathoni <fathoni.id@gmail.com>

  • Contributors: Stephan Sundermann, Tom Moore

2.4.0 (2017-06-12)

  • Updated documentation

  • Added reset_on_time_jump option

  • Added feature to optionally publish utm frame as parent in navsat_transform_node

  • Moved global callback queue reset

  • Added initial_state parameter and documentation

  • Fixed ac/deceleration gains default logic

  • Added gravity parameter

  • Added delay and throttle if tf lookup fails

  • Fixed UKF IMUTwistBasicIO test

  • Added transform_timeout parameter

  • Set gps_odom timestamp before tf2 lookuptransform

  • Removed non-portable sincos calls

  • Simplified logic to account for correlated error

  • Added dynamic process noise covariance calculation

  • Fixed catkin_package Eigen warning

  • Added optional publication of acceleration state

  • Contributors: Brian Gerkey, Enrique Fernandez, Jochen Sprickerhof, Rein Appeldoorn, Simon Gene Gottlieb, Tom Moore

2.3.1 (2016-10-27)

  • Adding gitignore

  • Adding remaining wiki pages

  • Adding config and prep pages

  • Adding navsat_transform_node documentation

  • use_odometry_yaw fix for n_t_n

  • Fixing issue with manual pose reset when history is not empty

  • Getting inverse transform when looking up robot’s pose.

  • Sphinx documentation

  • Removing forward slashes from navsat_transform input topics for template launch file

  • Adding example launch and parameter files for a two-level EKF setup with navsat_transform_node

  • Adding yaml file for navsat_transform_node, and moving parameter documentation to it.

  • Updating EKF and UKF parameter templates with usage comments

  • Contributors: Tom Moore, asimay

2.3.0 (2016-07-28)

  • Fixed issues with datum usage and frame_ids

  • Fixed comment for wait_for_datum

  • Fixing issue with non-zero navsat sensor orientation offsets

  • Fixing issue with base_link->gps transform wrecking the ‘true’ UTM position computation

  • Using correct covariance for filtered GPS

  • Fixed unitialized odometry covariance bug

  • Added filter history and measurement queue behavior

  • Changing output timestamp to more accurately use the time stamp of the most recently-processed measurement

  • Added TcpNoDelay()

  • Added parameter to make transform publishing optional

  • Fixed differential handling for pose data so that it doesn’t care about the message’s frame_id

  • Updated UKF config and launch

  • Added a test case for the timestamp diagnostics

  • Added reporting of bad timestamps via diagnostics

  • Updated tests to match new method signatures

  • Added control term

  • Added smoothing capability for delayed measurements

  • Making variables in navsat_transform conform to ROS coding standards

  • Contributors: Adel Fakih, Ivor Wanders, Marc Essinger, Tobias Tueylue, Tom Moore

2.2.3 (2016-04-24)

  • Cleaning up callback data structure and callbacks and updating doxygen comments in headers

  • Removing MessageFilters

  • Removing deprecated parameters

  • Adding the ability to handle GPS offsets from the vehicle’s origin

  • Cleaning up navsat_transform.h

  • Making variables in navsat_transform conform to ROS coding standards

2.2.2 (2016-02-04)

  • Updating trig functions to use sincos for efficiency

  • Updating licensing information and adding Eigen MPL-only flag

  • Added state to imu frame transformation

  • Using state orientation if imu orientation is missing

  • Manually adding second spin for odometry and IMU data that is passed to message filters

  • Reducing delay between measurement reception and filter output

  • Zero altitute in intital transform too, when zero altitude param is set

  • Fixing regression with conversion back to GPS coordinates

  • Switched cropping of orientation data in inovationSubset with mahalanobis check to prevent excluding measurements with orientations bigger/smaller than ± PI

  • Fix Jacobian for EKF.

  • Removing warning about orientation variables when only their velocities are measured

  • Checking for -1 in IMU covariances and ignoring relevant message data

  • roslint and catkin_lint applied

  • Adding base_link to datum specification, and fixing bug with order of measurement handling when a datum is specified. Also added check to make sure IMU data is transformable before using it.

  • Contributors: Adnan Ademovic, Jit Ray Chowdhury, Philipp Tscholl, Tom Moore, ayrton04, kphil

2.2.1 (2015-05-27)

  • Fixed handling of IMU data w.r.t. differential mode and relative mode

2.2.0 (2015-05-22)

  • Added tf2-friendly tf_prefix appending

  • Corrected for IMU orientation in navsat_transform

  • Fixed issue with out-of-order measurements and pose resets

  • Nodes now assume ENU standard for yaw data

  • Removed gps_common dependency

  • Adding option to navsat_transform_node that enables the use of the heading from the odometry message instead of an IMU.

  • Changed frame_id used in setPoseCallback to be the world_frame

  • Optimized Eigen arithmetic for signficiant performance boost

  • Migrated to tf2

  • Code refactoring and reorganization

  • Removed roll and pitch from navsat_transform calculations

  • Fixed transform for IMU data to better support mounting IMUs in non-standard orientations

  • Added feature to navsat_transform_node whereby filtered odometry data can be coverted back into navsat data

  • Added a parameter to allow future dating the world_frame->base_link_frame transform.

  • Removed deprecated differential setting handler

  • Added relative mode

  • Updated and improved tests

  • Fixing source frame_id in pose data handling

  • Added initial covariance parameter

  • Fixed bug in covariance copyinh

  • Added parameters for topic queue sizes

  • Improved motion model’s handling of angular velocities when robot has non-zero roll and pitch

  • Changed the way differential measurements are handled

  • Added diagnostics

2.1.7 (2015-01-05)

  • Added some checks to eliminate unnecessary callbacks

  • Updated launch file templates

  • Added measurement outlier rejection

  • Added failure callbacks for tf message filters

  • Added optional broadcast of world_frame->utm transform for navsat_transform_node

  • Bug fixes for differential mode and handling of Z acceleration in 2D mode

2.1.6 (2014-11-06)

  • Added unscented Kalman filter (UKF) localization node

  • Fixed map->odom tf calculation

  • Acceleration data from IMUs is now used in computing the state estimate

  • Added 2D mode

2.1.5 (2014-10-07)

  • Changed initial estimate error covariance to be much smaller

  • Fixed some debug output

  • Added test suite

  • Better compliance with REP-105

  • Fixed differential measurement handling

  • Implemented message filters

  • Added navsat_transform_node

2.1.4 (2014-08-22)

  • Adding utm_transform_node to install targets

2.1.3 (2014-06-22)

  • Some changes to ease GPS integration

  • Addition of differential integration of pose data

  • Some documentation cleanup

  • Added UTM transform node and launch file

  • Bug fixes

2.1.2 (2014-04-11)

  • Updated covariance correction formulation to “Joseph form” to improve filter stability.

  • Implemented new versioning scheme.

2.1.1 (2014-04-11)

  • Added cmake_modules dependency for Eigen support, and added include to silence boost::signals warning from tf include