Author(s): Ralf Kaestner
Affiliation: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

This project contains the follwing GUI plugins which may be useful when working with ROS TF frames:

• tf2

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-tf2-ros ros-indigo-tf2-geometry-msgs
  

• rqt

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rqt
  

• rviz

  sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rviz
  

Create a symlink in your catkin source folder, e.g.:

ln -s ~/git/ros-tf-plugins ~/catkin_ws/src

If you just need certain componenets of the GUI:

ln -s ~/git/ros-tf-plugins/name_of_the_component ~/catkin_ws/src

To launch the standalone rqt plugin, run

rosrun rqt_static_tf rqt_static_tf

To launch the rqt GUI without a perspective, run

rqt --force-discover

This will discover all plugins, which can then be loaded manually.

To delete the default configuration files (in case of problems):

rqt --clear-config

To launch rviz and discover the plugin, run

rosrun rviz rviz

Please report bugs and feature requests on the Issue Tracker.