vicon with ROS INDIGO

Question

Hi,

I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 meaning an upgrade from ROS fuerte to ROS indigo. Unfortunately, the vicon_bridge package is failing to compile. One of the ‘tf_cb_' error messages is

../../vicon_bridge/src/tf_distort.cpp:154:6: error: ‘tf_cb_’ was not declared in this scope if(tf_cb_.connected())

Is there a fix for this problem? Are there any plans getting vicon_bridge to work with ROS indigo? If not, are there alternative packages to vicon_bridge that can get vicon messages into 'tf' message type?

Regards, Moses.

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Originally posted by dnovichman on ROS Answers with karma: 11 on 2014-12-18

Post score: 1

Answer 1

The vicon_bridge in the ethz-asl/vicon_bridge repository (which seems like a stand-alone repository for just vicon_bridge, which was originally here) compiles for me under Indigo.

Note: I have not tested whether it actually works (but I assume it does).

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Originally posted by gvdhoorn with karma: 86574 on 2014-12-18

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by dnovichman on 2014-12-18:
Thanks. I can confirm to you that I have compiled and tested the latest vicon_bridge and it worked.

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2014-12-19:
@dnovichman: I've converted your post to a comment, please only use answers for actual answers.

Comment by 101010 on 2015-01-14:
FYI - Thanks for the link however, the ROS site does not have the most recent catkinized vicon_bridge node link, this is why I could not find it.

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2015-01-14:
Please don't take my answer on catkin 'ized' Vicon Package as criticism, I'm merely trying to avoid posting the same information multiple times by refering people to older answers.