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navx_ros

Creates a ROS node that publishes to IMU.msg.
Based off of FRC Team 900's repository

Directions for installing

  1. Clone this project to your catkin's workspace src folder
  2. Navigate into navx_ros directory and run git submodule init and git submodule update

Direction for testing/visualizing

  1. Install rviz_imu_plugin: roswiki, github
  2. Start the imu node (including roscore) and run rosrun rviz rviz
  3. Navigate to the bottom left corner and click 'add' and scroll down and add Imu under the 'rviz_imu_plugin' folder
  4. On the left Display panel, add the IMU topic (default should be /Imu) and change the 'Fixed Frame' variable to imu
  5. Change the settings for the box, axes, and acceleration as needed