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Hi Gazer,

Just a guess, but I suspect your problem is actually due to the TF being wrong. Check out the REP here: http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0103.html

For robots it's conventional to put the X+ as the 'forward' direction, but there's a lot of camera stuff that uses Z+ as the forward direction instead.

Cheers, Gavin

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