'rosApplyTransfrom' gives error even on passing the correct arguments type

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I am trying to tranfrom messages from one frame to another, from a rosbag, in the following fashion.
tranF = getTransform(bagfile,'targetFrame','world');
worldPose = readMessages(select(bagfile,'Topic','/vrpn_client_node/targetFrame/pose' ),'DataFormat','struct');
rosApplyTransform(tranF,worldPose)
But upon doing so I get the following error. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Error using rosApplyTransform
Expected tfmsg to be one of these types:
struct
Instead its type was ros.msg.geometry_msgs.TransformStamped.
Error in rosApplyTransform (line 40)
validateattributes(tfmsg, {'struct'},{'scalar'},'rosApplyTransform','tfmsg');

Answers (1)

Cam Salzberger
Cam Salzberger on 16 Jun 2022
Hello Dhruv,
The issue is that the output of "getTransform" is a message object, while the output of "readMessages" is a message struct, and "rosApplyTransform" expects both to be message structs.
Unfortunately, I'm not able to find a way to get a message struct out of "getTransform", which would be the idea situation. So the best workaround for now is probably to get an object out of "readMessages" as well (remove the DataFormat=struct name-value pair), and then use the "apply" function rather than "rosApplyTransform".
-Cam

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