how make an odom publisher in cpp
Hi everyone, i'm trying to create an odom node that takes the input data from <geometry_msgs twist.h="">. my problem is that i am not familiar with cpp so i have no idea how to make these. I thought I'd subscribe to <geometry_msgs twist.h=""> in a separate tread and populate the msg.linear.x and msg.angular.z values into global variables and then use them in the While loop for delta_x and delta_th computation, but I have no idea how to proceed or if I need to change the method. How can i do? below I have reported the code, (my environment is ros melodic). Thanks everyone for the help
#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <tf/transform_broadcaster.h>
#include <nav_msgs/Odometry.h>
#include <geometry_msgs/Twist.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv){
ros::init(argc, argv, "odometry_publisher");
ros::NodeHandle n;
ros::Publisher odom_pub = n.advertise<nav_msgs::Odometry>("odom", 50);
tf::TransformBroadcaster odom_broadcaster;
double x = 0.0;
double y = 0.0;
double th = 0.0;
double vx = 0.1;
double vy = 0.0;
double vth = 0.1;
ros::Time current_time, last_time;
current_time = ros::Time::now();
last_time = ros::Time::now();
ros::Rate r(1.0);
while(n.ok()){
current_time = ros::Time::now();
//compute odometry in a typical way given the velocities of the robot
double dt = (current_time - last_time).toSec();
double delta_x = (vx * cos(th) - vy * sin(th)) * dt;
double delta_y = (vx * sin(th) + vy * cos(th)) * dt;
double delta_th = vth * dt;
x += delta_x;
y += delta_y;
th += delta_th;
//since all odometry is 6DOF we'll need a quaternion created from yaw
geometry_msgs::Quaternion odom_quat = tf::createQuaternionMsgFromYaw(th);
//first, we'll publish the transform over tf
geometry_msgs::TransformStamped odom_trans;
odom_trans.header.stamp = current_time;
odom_trans.header.frame_id = "odom";
odom_trans.child_frame_id = "base_link";
odom_trans.transform.translation.x = x;
odom_trans.transform.translation.y = y;
odom_trans.transform.translation.z = 0.0;
odom_trans.transform.rotation = odom_quat;
//send the transform
odom_broadcaster.sendTransform(odom_trans);
//next, we'll publish the odometry message over ROS
nav_msgs::Odometry odom;
odom.header.stamp = current_time;
odom.header.frame_id = "odom";
//set the position
odom.pose.pose.position.x = x;
odom.pose.pose.position.y = y;
odom.pose.pose.position.z = 0.0;
odom.pose.pose.orientation = odom_quat;
//set the velocity
odom.child_frame_id = "base_link";
odom.twist.twist.linear.x = vx;
odom.twist.twist.linear.y = vy;
odom.twist.twist.angular.z = vth;
//publish the message
odom_pub.publish(odom);
last_time = current_time;
r.sleep();
}
}
It is supposed to be
while(ros::ok()){...}
I believe. Also put the subscriber in this same file . Maybe take a look at this tutorial and then come back with more specific questions/error messages