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Great references (and hopefully they clarify your questions too) are on the wiki and the REPs, e.g. distances are in meters, angles are in radians or more broadly, SI or SI-derived units are to be used (by everyone).

Remember that the twist message "expresses velocity in free space broken into it's linear and angular parts." So angular.z is the angular velocity (not an angle).

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