ROSaic = ROS + mosaic

Overview

This repository hosts a ROS Melodic and Noetic driver (i.e. for Linux only) - written in C++ - that works with mosaic and AsteRx - two of Septentrio's cutting-edge GNSS/INS receiver families - and beyond. Since Noetic will only be supported until 2025, we plan to make ROSaic compatible with ROS2.

Main Features: - Supports Septentrio's single antenna GNSS, dual antenna GNSS and INS receivers - Supports serial, TCP/IP and USB connections, the latter being compatible with both serial and TCP/IP protocols - Supports several ASCII (including key NMEA ones) messages and SBF (Septentrio Binary Format) blocks - Can publish nav_msgs/Odometry message for INS receivers - Can blend SBF blocks PVTGeodetic, PosCovGeodetic, ChannelStatus, MeasEpoch, AttEuler, AttCovEuler, VelCovGeodetic and DOP in order to publish gps_common/GPSFix and sensor_msgs/NavSatFix messages - Easy configuration of correction services - Can play back PCAP capture logs for testing purposes - Tested with the mosaic-X5, mosaic-H, AsteRx-m3 Pro+ and the AsteRx-SBi3 Pro receiver - Easy to add support for more log types

Please let the maintainers know of your success or failure in using the driver with other devices so we can update this page appropriately.

Dependencies

The master branch for this driver functions on both ROS Melodic (Ubuntu 18.04) and Noetic (Ubuntu 20.04). It is thus necessary to install the ROS version that has been designed for your Linux distro.

An additional ROS packages have to be installed for the GPSFix message.

sudo apt install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-nmea-msgs ros-$ROS_DISTRO-gps-common.

The serial and TCP/IP communication interface of the ROS driver is established by means of the Boost C++ library. In the unlikely event that the below installation instructions fail to install Boost on the fly, please install the Boost libraries via

sudo apt install libboost-all-dev.

Compatiblity with PCAP captures are incorporated through pcap libraries. Install the necessary headers via

sudo apt install libpcap-dev.

Conversions from LLA to UTM are incorporated through GeographicLib. Install the necessary headers via

sudo apt install libgeographic-dev

Usage

Inertial Navigation System (INS): Basics

• An Inertial Navigation System (INS) is a device which takes the rotation and acceleration solutions as obtained from its Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and combines those with position and velocity information from the GNSS module. Compared to a GNSS system with 7D or 8D (dual-antenna systems) phase space solutions, the combined, Kalman-filtered 9D phase space solution (3 for position, 3 for velocity, 3 for orientation) of an INS is more accurate, more precise and more stable against GNSS outages.

• The IMU is typically made up of a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis gyroscope and sometimes a 3-axis magnetometer and measures the system's angular rate and acceleration.

  Measure and Compensate for IMU-Antenna Lever Arm
  • The IMU-antenna lever-arm is the relative position between the IMU reference point and the GNSS Antenna Reference Point (ARP), measured in the vehicle frame.
  • In case of AsteRx SBi3, the IMU reference point is clearly marked on the top panel of the receiver. It is important to compensate for the effect of the lever arm, otherwise the receiver may not be able to calculate an accurate INS position.
  • The IMU/antenna position can be changed by specifying the lever arm's x,yand z parameters in the config.yaml file under the ins_spatial_config/ant_lever_arm parameter.

  

  Compensate for IMU Orientation

  + It is important to take into consideration the mounting direction of the IMU in the body frame of the vehicle. For e.g. when the receiver is installed horizontally with the front panel facing the direction of travel, we must compensate for the IMU’s orientation to make sure the IMU reference frame is aligned with the vehicle reference frame. The IMU position and orientation is printed on the top panel, cf. image below. + The IMU's orientation can be changed by specifying the orientation angles theta_x,theta_yand theta_z in the config.yaml file under the ins_spatial_config/imu_orientation + The below image illustrates the orientation of the IMU reference frame with the associated IMU orientation for the depicted installation. Note that for use_ros_axis_orientation: true sensor_default is the top left position.

  

• These Steps should be followed to configure the receiver in INS integration mode:

  • Specify receiver_type: ins
  • Specify the orientation of the IMU sensor with respect to your vehicle, using the ins_spatial_config/imu_orientation parameter
  • Specify the IMU-antenna lever arm in the vehicle reference frame. This is the vector starting from the IMU reference point to the ARP of the main GNSS antenna. This can be done by means of the ins_spatial_config/ant_lever_arm parameter.
  • If the point of interest is neither the IMU nor the ARP of the main GNSS antenna, the vector between the IMU and the point of interest can be provided with the ins_solution/poi_lever_arm parameter.

• For further more information about Septentrio receivers, visit Septentrio support resources or check out the user manual and reference guide of the AsteRx SBi3 receiver.

ROSaic Parameters

The following is a list of ROSaic parameters found in the config/rover.yaml file. * Parameters Configuring Communication Ports and Processing of GNSS and INS Data

• device: location of device connection
  • serial:xxx format for serial connections, where xxx is the device node, e.g. serial:/dev/ttyUSB0
  • file_name:path/to/file.sbf format for publishing from an SBF log
  • file_name:path/to/file.pcap format for publishing from PCAP capture.
    • Regarding the file path, ROS_HOME=`pwd` in front of roslaunch septentrio... might be useful to specify that the node should be started using the executable's directory as its working-directory.
  • tcp://host:port format for TCP/IP connections
    • 28784 should be used as the default (command) port for TCP/IP connections. If another port is specified, the receiver needs to be (re-)configured via the Web Interface before ROSaic can be used.
    • An RNDIS IP interface is provided via USB, assigning the address 192.168.3.1 to the receiver. This should work on most modern Linux distributions. To verify successful connection, open a web browser to access the web interface of the receiver using the IP address 192.168.3.1.
  • default: tcp://192.168.3.1:28784
• serial: specifications for serial communication
  • serial/baudrate: serial baud rate to be used in a serial connection. Ensure the provided rate is sufficient for the chosen SBF blocks. For example, activating MeasEpoch (also necessary for /gpsfix) may require up to almost 400 kBit/s.
  • serial/rx_serial_port: determines to which (virtual) serial port of the Rx we want to get connected to, e.g. USB1 or COM1
  • hw_flow_control: specifies whether the serial (the Rx's COM ports, not USB1 or USB2) connection to the Rx should have UART HW flow control enabled or not
    • off to disable UART HW flow control, RTS|CTS to enable it
  • default: 921600, USB1, off
• login: credentials for user authentification to perform actions not allowed to anonymous users. Leave empty for anonymous access.
  • login/user: user name
  • login/password: password

• receiver_type: This parameter is to select the type of the Septentrio receiver
  • If gnss, then ROS can only output data related to GNSS receivers.
  • If ins, then ROS can only output data related to INS receivers.
  • default: gnss
• multi_antenna: Whether or not the Rx has multiple antennas.
  • default: false

• frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the Rx, placed in the header of published GNSS messages. It corresponds to the frame of the main antenna.
  • In ROS, the tf package lets you keep track of multiple coordinate frames over time. The frame ID will be resolved by tf_prefix if defined. If a ROS message has a header (all of those we publish do), the frame ID can be found via rostopic echo /topic, where /topic is the topic into which the message is being published.
  • default: gnss
• imu_frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the IMU, placed in the header of published Imu message
  • default: imu
• poi_frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the POI, placed in the child frame_id of localization if ins_use_poi is set to true.
  • default: base_link
• vsm_frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the velocity sensor.
  • default: vsm
• aux1_frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the aux1 antenna.
  • default: aux1
• vehicle_frame_id: name of the ROS tf frame for the vehicle. Default is the same as poi_frame_id but may be set otherwise.
  • default: base_link
• get_spatial_config_from_tf: wether to get the spatial config via tf with the above mentioned frame ids. This will override spatial settings of the config file. For receiver type ins with multi_antenna set to true all frames have to be provided, with multi_antenna set to false, aux1_frame_id is not necessary. For type gnss with dual-antenna setup only frame_id, aux1_frame_id, and poi_frame_id are needed. For single-antenna gnss no frames are needed. Keep in mind that tf has a tree structure. Thus, poi_frame_id is the base for all mentioned frames.
  • default: false
• use_ros_axis_orientation Wether to use ROS axis orientations according to ROS REP 103 for body related frames and geographic frames. Body frame directions affect INS lever arms and IMU orientation setup parameters. Geographic frame directions affect orientation Euler angles for INS+GNSS and attitude of dual-antenna GNSS.
  • If set to false Septentrios definition is used, i.e., front-right-down body related frames and NED (north-east-down) for orientation frames.
  • If set to true ROS definition is used, i.e., front-left-up body related frames and ENU (east-north-up) for orientation frames.
  • default: true

• lock_utm_zone: wether the UTM zone of the inital localization is locked, i.e., this zone is kept even if a zone transition would occur.
  • default: true

• datum: datum that (ellipsoidal) height should be referenced to in all published ROS messages
  • Since the standardized GGA message does only provide the orthometric height (= MSL height = distance from Earth's surface to geoid) and the geoid undulation (distance from geoid to ellipsoid) for which non-WGS84 datums cannot be specified, it does not affect the GGA message.
  • default: ETRS89

• poi_to_arp: offsets of the main GNSS antenna reference point (ARP) with respect to the point of interest (POI = marker). Use for static receivers only.
  • The parameters delta_e, delta_n and delta_u are the offsets in the East, North and Up (ENU) directions respectively, expressed in meters.
  • All absolute positions reported by the receiver are POI positions, obtained by subtracting this offset from the ARP. The purpose is to take into account the fact that the antenna may not be located directly on the surveying POI.
  • default: 0.0, 0.0 and 0.0

+ `att_offset`: Angular offset between two antennas (Main and Aux) and vehicle frame
+ `heading`: The perpendicular (azimuth) axis can be compensated for by adjusting the `heading` parameter
+ `pitch`: Vertical (elevation) offset can be compensated for by adjusting the `pitch` parameter
+ default: `0.0`, `0.0` (degrees)

• ant_type: type of your main GNSS antenna
  • For best positional accuracy, it is recommended to select a type from the list returned by the command lstAntennaInfo, Overview. This is the list of antennas for which the receiver can compensate for phase center variation.
  • By default and if ant_type does not match any entry in the list returned by lstAntennaInfo, Overview, the receiver will assume that the phase center variation is zero at all elevations and frequency bands, and the position will not be as accurate.
  • default: Unknown
• ant_serial_nr: serial number of your main GNSS antenna
• ant_aux1_type and ant_aux1_serial_nr: same for Aux1 antenna

• leap_seconds: number of leap seconds that have been inserted up until the point of ROSaic usage
  • At the time of writing the code (2020), the GPS time, which is unaffected by leap seconds, was ahead of UTC time by 18 leap seconds. Adapt the leap_seconds parameter accordingly as soon as the next leap second is inserted into the UTC time or in case you are using ROSaic for the purpose of simulations. In the latter case, in addition please set the parameter use_gnss_time to true and uncomment a paragraph in the UTCtoUnix() function definition found in the file septentrio_gnss_driver/src/septentrio_gnss_driver/parsers/parsing_utilities.cpp and enter the year, month and date to be simulated.

• polling_period/pvt: desired period in milliseconds between the polling of two consecutive PVTGeodetic, PosCovGeodetic, PVTCartesian and PosCovCartesian blocks and - if published - between the publishing of two of the corresponding ROS messages (e.g. septentrio_gnss_driver/PVTGeodetic.msg) . If set to 0, the SBF blocks are output at their natural renewal rate (OnChange).
  • Clearly, the publishing of composite ROS messages such as sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg or gps_common/GPSFix.msg is triggered by the SBF block that arrives last among the blocks of the current epoch.
  • default: 500 (2 Hz)
• polling_period/rest: desired period in milliseconds between the polling of all other SBF blocks and NMEA sentences not addressed by the previous parameter, and - if published - between the publishing of all other ROS messages
  • default: 500 (2 Hz)

• use_gnss_time: true if the ROS message headers' unix epoch time field shall be constructed from the TOW/WNC (in the SBF case) and UTC (in the NMEA case) data, false if those times shall be taken by the driver from ROS time. If use_gnss_time is set to true, make sure the ROS system is synchronized to an NTP time server either via internet or ideally via the Septentrio recevier since the latter serves as a Stratum 1 time server not dependent on an internet connection. The NTP server of the receiver is automatically activated on the Septentrio recevier (for INS/GNSS a firmware >= 1.3.3 is needed).
  • default: true

• ntrip_settings: determines NTRIP connection parameters
  • The two implemented use cases are
    • a) The Rx has internet access, set rx_has_internet to true, and
    • b) The Rx has no internet access, set rx_has_internet to false, but Data Link from Septentrio's RxTools is installed on the computer.
  • The first nested ROS parameter, ntrip_settings/mode, specifies the type of the NTRIP connection and must be one of Client or off. In Client mode, the receiver receives data from the NTRIP caster. Set mode to off to disable all correction services.
  • Next, ntrip_settings/caster is the hostname or IP address of the NTRIP caster to connect to. To send data to the built-in NTRIP caster, use "localhost" for this parameter.
  • Note that ntrip_settings/port, ntrip_settings/username, ntrip_settings/password and ntrip_settings/mountpoint are the IP port number, the user name, the password and the mount point, respectively, to be used when connecting to the NTRIP caster. The receiver encrypts the password so that it cannot be read back with the command "getNtripSettings". The ntrip_settings/version argument specifies which version of the NTRIP protocol to use (v1 or v2).
  • Further, send_gga specifies whether or not to send NMEA GGA messages to the NTRIP caster, and at which rate. It must be one of auto, off, sec1, sec5, sec10 or sec60. In auto mode, the receiver automatically sends GGA messages if requested by the caster.
  • The boolean parameter rx_has_internet specifies whether the Rx has internet access or not. Note that an Ethernet cable is the only way to enable internet access on mosaic receivers (and most others) at the moment. In case internet is available, NTRIP will be configured with a simple command snts, ... that ROSaic sends to the receiver.
  • The parameter rtcm_version specifies the type of RTCM data transmitted to ROSaic by the NTRIP caster, either RTCMv2 or RTCMv3. It depends on the mountpoint.
  • In case the connection to the receiver is via TCP, rx_input_corrections_tcp specifies the port number of the IP server (IPS1) connection that ROSaic establishes on the receiver. Note that ROSaic will send GGA messages on this connection, such that in the Data Link application of RxTools one just needs to set up a TCP client to the host name as found in the ROSaic parameter device with the port as found in rx_input_corrections_tcp. If the latter connection were connection 1 on Data Link, then connection 2 would set up an NTRIP client connecting to the NTRIP caster as specified in the above parameters in order to forward the corrections from connection 2 to connection 1.
  • Finally, in case we are facing a serial connection (COM or USB), the parameter rx_input_corrections_serial analogously determines the port on which corrections could be serially forwarded to the Rx via Data Link.
  • default: off, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, v2, auto, false, RTCMv2, 6666, USB2

+ `ins_spatial_config`: Spatial configuration of INS/IMU. Coordinates according to body realted frame directions chosen by `use_ros_axis_orientation` (front-left-up if `true` and front-right-down if `false`).
  + `imu_orientation`: IMU sensor orientation
    + Parameters `theta_x`, `theta_y` and `theta_z` are used to determine the sensor orientation with respect to the vehicle frame. Positive angles correspond to a right-handed (clockwise) rotation of the IMU with respect to its nominal orientation (see below). The order of the rotations is as follows: `theta_z` first, then `theta_y`, then `theta_x`.
    + The nominal orientation is where the IMU is upside down and with the `X axis` marked on the receiver pointing to the front of the vehicle. By contrast, for `use_ros_axis_orientation: true`, nominal orientation is where the `Z axis` of the IMU is pointing upwards and also with the `X axis` marked on the receiver pointing to the front of the vehicle.
    + default: `0.0`, `0.0`, `0.0` (degrees)
  + `poi_lever_arm`: The lever arm from the IMU reference point to a user-defined POI
    + Parameters `delta_x`,`delta_y` and `delta_z` refer to the vehicle reference frame
    + default: `0.0`, `0.0`, `0.0` (meters)
  + `ant_lever_arm`: The lever arm from the IMU reference point to the main GNSS antenna
    + The parameters `x`,`y` and `z` refer to the vehicle reference frame
    + default: `0.0`, `0.0`, `0.0` (meters)
  + `vel_sensor_lever_arm`: The lever arm from the IMU reference point to the velocity sensor
    + The parameters `vsm_x`,`vsm_y` and `vsm_z` refer to the vehicle reference frame 
    + default: `0.0`, `0.0`, `0.0` (meters)
+ `ins_initial_heading`: How the receiver obtains the initial INS/GNSS integrated heading during the alignment phase
    + In case it is `auto`, the initial integrated heading is determined from GNSS measurements.
    + In case it is `stored`, the last known heading when the vehicle stopped before switching off the receiver is used as initial heading. Use if vehicle does not move when the receiver is switched off.
    + default: `auto`
+ `ins_std_dev_mask`: Maximum accepted error
  + `att_std_dev`: Configures an output limit on standard deviation of the attitude angles (max error accepted: 5 degrees)
  + `pos_std_dev`: Configures an output limit on standard deviation of the position (max error accepted: 100 meters)
  + default: `5` degrees, `10` meters    
+ `ins_use_poi`: Whether or not to use the POI defined in `ins_spatial_config/poi_lever_arm`
  + If true, the point at which the INS navigation solution (e.g. in `insnavgeod` ROS topic) is calculated will be the POI as defined above (`poi_frame_id`), otherwise it'll be the main GNSS antenna (`frame_id`). Has to be set to `true` if tf shall be published.
  + default: `true`

+ `activate_debug_log`: `true` if ROS logger level shall be set to debug.

• Parameters Configuring Publishing of ROS Messages

  NMEA/SBF Messages to be Published
  • publish/gpgga: true to publish nmea_msgs/GPGGA.msg messages into the topic /gpgga
  • publish/gprmc: true to publish nmea_msgs/GPRMC.msg messages into the topic /gprmc
  • publish/gpgsa: true to publish nmea_msgs/GPGSA.msg messages into the topic /gpgsa
  • publish/gpgsv: true to publish nmea_msgs/GPGSV.msg messages into the topic /gpgsv
  • publish/measepoch: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/MeasEpoch.msg messages into the topic /measepoch
  • publish/pvtcartesian: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/PVTCartesian.msg messages into the topic /pvtcartesian
  • publish/pvtgeodetic: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/PVTGeodetic.msg messages into the topic /pvtgeodetic
  • publish/poscovcartesian: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/PosCovCartesian.msg messages into the topic /poscovcartesian
  • publish/poscovgeodetic: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/PosCovGeodetic.msg messages into the topic /poscovgeodetic
  • publish/velcovgeodetic: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/VelCovGeodetic.msg messages into the topic /velcovgeodetic
  • publish/atteuler: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/AttEuler.msg messages into the topic /atteuler
  • publish/attcoveuler: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/AttCovEuler.msg messages into the topic /attcoveuler
  • publish/gpst: true to publish sensor_msgs/TimeReference.msg messages into the topic /gpst
  • publish/navsatfix: true to publish sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg messages into the topic /navsatfix
  • publish/gpsfix: true to publish gps_common/GPSFix.msg messages into the topic /gpsfix
  • publish/pose: true to publish geometry_msgs/PoseWithCovarianceStamped.msg messages into the topic /pose
  • publish/diagnostics: true to publish diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticArray.msg messages into the topic /diagnostics
  • publish/insnavcart: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavCart.msg message into the topic/insnavcart
  • publish/insnavgeod: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavGeod.msg message into the topic/insnavgeod
    
  • publish/extsensormeas: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/ExtSensorMeas.msg message into the topic/extsensormeas
  • publish/imusetup: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/IMUSetup.msg message into the topic/imusetup
  • publish/velsensorsetup: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/VelSensorSetup.msgs message into the topic/velsensorsetup
  • publish/exteventinsnavcart: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/ExtEventINSNavCart.msgs message into the topic/exteventinsnavcart
  • publish/exteventinsnavgeod: true to publish septentrio_gnss_driver/ExtEventINSNavGeod.msgs message into the topic/exteventinsnavgeod
  • publish/imu: true to publish sensor_msgs/Imu.msg message into the topic/imu
  • publish/localization: true to publish nav_msgs/Odometry.msg message into the topic/localization
  • publish/tf: true to broadcast tf of localization. ins_use_poi must also be set to true to publish tf.

ROS Topic Publications

A selection of NMEA sentences, the majority being standardized sentences, and proprietary SBF blocks is translated into ROS messages, partly generic and partly custom, and can be published at the discretion of the user into the following ROS topics. All published ROS messages, even custom ones, start with a ROS generic header std_msgs/Header.msg, which includes the receiver time stamp as well as the frame ID, the latter being specified in the ROS parameter frame_id.

• /gpgga: publishes nmea_msgs/Gpgga.msg - converted from the NMEA sentence GGA
• /gprmc: publishes nmea_msgs/Gprmc.msg - converted from the NMEA sentence RMC
• /gpgsa: publishes nmea_msgs/Gpgsa.msg - converted from the NMEA sentence GSA
• /gpgsv: publishes nmea_msgs/Gpgsv.msg - converted from the NMEA sentence GSV
• /pvtcartesian: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/PVTCartesian.msg, corresponding to the SBF block PVTCartesian (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /pvtgeodetic: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/PVTGeodetic.msg, corresponding to the SBF block PVTGeodetic (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /poscovcartesian: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/PosCovCartesian.msg, corresponding to SBF block PosCovCartesian (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /poscovgeodetic: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/PosCovGeodetic.msg, corresponding to SBF block PosCovGeodetic (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /velcovgeodetic: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/VelCovGeodetic.msg, corresponding to SBF block VelCovGeodetic (GNSS case)
• /atteuler: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/AttEuler.msg, corresponding to SBF block AttEuler (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /attcoveuler: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/AttCovEuler.msg, corresponding to the SBF block AttCovEuler (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
• /gpst (for GPS Time): publishes generic ROS message sensor_msgs/TimeReference.msg, converted from the PVTGeodetic (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case) block's GPS time information, stored in its header, or - if use_gnss_time is set to false - from the systems's wall-clock time
• /navsatfix: publishes generic ROS message sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg, converted from the SBF blocks PVTGeodetic,PosCovGeodetic (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case)
  • The ROS message sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg can be fed directly into the navsat_transform_node of the ROS navigation stack.
• /gpsfix: publishes generic ROS message gps_msgs/GPSFix.msg, which is much more detailed than sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg, converted from the SBF blocks PVTGeodetic, PosCovGeodetic, ChannelStatus, MeasEpoch, AttEuler, AttCovEuler, VelCovGeodetic, DOP (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod, DOP (INS case)
• /pose: publishes generic ROS message geometry_msgs/PoseWithCovarianceStamped.msg, converted from the SBF blocks PVTGeodetic, PosCovGeodetic, AttEuler, AttCovEuler (GNSS case) or INSNavGeod (INS case).
  • Note that GNSS provides absolute positioning, while robots are often localized within a local level cartesian frame. The pose field of this ROS message contains position with respect to the absolute ENU frame (longitude, latitude, height), i.e. not a cartesian frame, while the orientation is with respect to a vehicle-fixed (e.g. for mosaic-x5 in moving base mode via the command setAttitudeOffset, ...) !local! NED frame or ENU frame if use_ros_axis_directions is set true. Thus the orientation is !not! given with respect to the same frame as the position is given in. The cross-covariances are hence set to 0.
• /insnavcart: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavCart.msg, corresponding to SBF block INSNavCart
• /insnavgeod: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavGeod.msg, corresponding to SBF block INSNavGeod
• /extsensormeas: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/ExtSensorMeas.msg, corresponding to SBF block ExtSensorMeas
• /imusetup: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/IMUSetup.msg, corresponding to SBF block IMUSetup
• /velsensorsetup: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/VelSensorSetup.msg corresponding to SBF block VelSensorSetup
• /exteventinsnavcart: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavCart.msg, corresponding to SBF block ExtEventINSNavCart
• /exteventinsnavgeod: publishes custom ROS message septentrio_gnss_driver/INSNavGeod.msg, corresponding to SBF block ExtEventINSNavGeod
• /diagnostics: accepts generic ROS message diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticArray.msg, converted from the SBF blocks QualityInd, ReceiverStatus and ReceiverSetup
• /imu: accepts generic ROS message sensor_msgs/Imu.msg, converted from the SBF blocks ExtSensorMeas and INSNavGeod.
  • The ROS message sensor_msgs/Imu.msg can be fed directly into the robot_localization of the ROS navigation stack. Note that use_ros_axis_orientation should be set to true to adhere to the ENU convention.
• /localization: accepts generic ROS message nav_msgs/Odometry.msg, converted from the SBF block INSNavGeod and transformed to UTM.
  • The ROS message nav_msgs/Odometry.msg can be fed directly into the robot_localization of the ROS navigation stack. Note that use_ros_axis_orientation should be set to true to adhere to the ENU convention.

Suggestions for Improvements

Adding New SBF Blocks or NMEA Sentences

Changelog for package septentrio_gnss_driver

1.1.1 (2022-05-16)

• New Features

  : - Add login credentials - Activate NTP server if use_gnss_time is set to true

• Improvements

  : - Add NED option to localization

• Fixes

  : - IMU orientation for ROS axis convention

• Commits

  : - Merge pull request #62 from thomasemter/dev/next Small fixes and additions - Amend readme regarding robot_localization - Add more explanations for IMU orientation in ROS convention - Fix formatting in readme - Fix package name in readme - Update readme - Update changelog - Fix IMU orientation for ROS axis orientation - Activate NTP only if GNSS time is used - Add NED option to localization - Set NMEA header to - Fix logging causing crash - Update readme and changelog - Activate NTP server - Add credentials for access control - Contributors: Thomas Emter, Tibor Dome

1.1.0 (2022-04-25)

• New Features

  : - Add option to use ROS axis orientations according to REP103 - Add frame_id parameters - Add option to get frames from tf - Publishing of cartesian localization in UTM (topic and/or tf) for INS - Publishing of IMU topic for INS - Publishing of MeasEpoch - ROS2 branch

• Improvements

  : - Add multi antenna option - Increase number of SBF streams - Add option to set polling_period to \"on change\" - Increased buffer size from 8192 to 131072 bytes - Add endianess aware parsers - Only publish topics set to true - Add parameter to switch DEBUG logging on and off - Change GPxxx messages to ROS built-in types - Remove duplicate INS msg types

• Fixes

  : - Setting of antenna type - Publishing rate interconnections of gpsfix and velcovgeodetic - Missing quotes for antenna type - Broken attitude parsing pose and gpsfix from INS - IMU orientation was not sent to Rx - Graceful shutdown of threads

• Commits

  : - Merge branch \'dev\' - Prepare new release - Prepare new release - Merge pull request #53 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Very last changes - Add geographic lib dependency to package.xml - Add comment for frame of main antenna - Move utm zone locking section in readme - Reformulate readme section on frames - Merge pull request #52 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Last changes - Change frame id back to poi_frame_id - Make error log more explicit - Merge pull request #49 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Improve IMU blocks sync and do-not-use value handling - Fix buffer size in changelog - Turn off Nagle\'s algorithm for TCP - Fix changelog formatting - Fix readme - Set default base frame to base_link - Fix valid tow check logic - Increase buffer size for extreme stress tests - Fix crc check - Fix and streamline tf handling - Add checks for validity of values - Fix rad vs deg - Update changelog - Add some comments - Set stdDevMask to values > 0.0 in node - Set stdDevMask to values > 0.0 - Add info on RNDIS and set it to default - Increase default serial baud rate - Add parameter to set log level to debug - Change defaults for publishers in node - Put publish params together and fix mismatch in readme - Improve IMU blocks sync and do-not-use value handling - Merge pull request #48 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Fix measepoch not publishing without gpsfix - Fix measepoch not publishing without gpsfix - Merge pull request #47 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Dev/refactor - Publish only messages set to true - Remove leftover declaration - Merge branch \'dev/endianess_agnostic\' into dev/refactor - Update readme to reflect endianess aware parsing - Remove msg smart pointers - Fix array assertion failure - Cleanup - Add ReceiverStatus parser - Add QualityInd parser - Add DOP parser - Add ReceiverSetup parser - Fix MeasEpoch and ChannelStatus parsers, add measepoch publishing - Add ChannelStatus parser - Add MeasEpoch parser - Add IMU and VelSensor setup parsers - Add Cov SBF parsers - Add templated qi parser function - Add AttEuler+Cov parser - Revert ordering change inside INSNav ROS msgs - Add ExtSensorMeas parser - Add PVT parsers - Add range checks to parsers - Replace INSNav grammar with parsers - Test parser vs. grammar for better performance - Fix sb_list check - Add IMU and VelSensor setup grammars - Move adapt ROS header to typedefs.h - Add revision check to MeasEpoch - Fix ReceiverStatus grammar - Extend ReceiverSetup and add revision checks - Change logger and fix loop range - Remove reserved bytes from parsing - Remove obsolete structs - Directly parse Cov SBFs to ROS msg - Directly parse PVT SBFs, remove obsolete ids - Rename rev to revision - Fix block header parsing - Directly parse AttEuler to ROS msg - Directly parse to ROS msgs for INSNavXxx - Exchange pow with square function and remove casts - Merge pull request #46 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Dev/refactor - Simplify sync bytes check - Move tow/wnc to BlockHeader - Adjust order in INSNav ros msgs - Fix INSNav grammars - Change BlockHeader structure - Remove length ref from header - Rectify sb_list check of INSNavXxx - Add automtatic activation of multi-antenna mode - Merge branch \'dev/refactor\' of https://github.com/thomasemter/septentrio_gnss_driver into dev/refactor - Add automtatic activation of multi-antenna mode - Fix wrong scope of phoenix::ref variables - Fix AttEuler grammar - Add max size checks to QualityInd and ReceiverStatus - Replace locals with phoenix::ref in grammars - Add revision dependent parsing to PVTs - Change offset check to epsilon - Change offset check to epsilon - Fix parsing checks - Set has arrived to false on parsing error - Add INSNav grammars - Add abs to offset check - Add abs to offset check - Add Cov grammars - Remove superfluous typdefs of structs - Add ReceiverStatus grammar - Add QualityINd grammar - Merge pull request #45 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Dev/refactor - Add id check to header grammar - Add id check to header grammar - Add ReceiverSetup grammar - Add DOP grammar - Directly intialize vector to parse - Add MeasEpoch grammar - Remove duplicate msg types - Remove obsolete include - Add revision and length return to header grammar - Merge branch \'feature/endianess_agnostic\' into dev/endianess_agnostic - Make multi_antenna option also usable for gnss - Add typedefs plus some minor changes - Add warning concerning pitch angle if antennas are rotated - Add multi antenna option to ins and fix antenna offset decimal places trimming - Fix identation - Distinguish between gnss and ins for spatial config from tf - Merge pull request #43 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Dev/refactor - Add vehicle frame for clarity - Handle missing tf more gently - Merge branch \'dev/spatial_config_via_tf\' into dev/refactor - Update readme - Fix antenna offset from tf - Add automatic publishing of localization if tf is activated - Add automatic publishing of localization if tf is activated - Add spatial config via tf, to be tested - Fix crashes due to parsing errors (replacing uncatched throws) - Add tf broadcasting - Add comments - Add localization in UTM output - Add check to IMU msg sync - Change msg sync to allow for 200 Hz IMU msgs - Add ROS IMU msg - Fix IMU setup message attitude conversion - Fix pose from INS data - Fix IMU raw data rotation compensation - Make antenna attitude offset usable by GNSS - Add ros directions option to pose and fix covariances - Update readme - Merge branch \'feature/ros_axis_orientation\' into dev/refactor - Add nmea_msgs dependencies - Merge branch \'dev/nmea\' into dev/refactor - Update readme - Update readme - Add antenna offsets to conversions - Fix IMU orientation conversion - Change ExtSensorMead temperature to deg C - Add axis orientation info to readme - Fix IMU axis orientation - Change get int param - Update readme to reflect removal of aux antenna offset - Fix different antenna setup message for INS and remove obsolete aux1 antenna offset for GNSS - Fix ExtSensorMeas message filling - Fix ExtSensorMeas message to reflect available fields - Fix missing INS blocks - Fix missing INS blocks - WIP, introduce ros axis orientation option, to be tested - Add option to set pvt rate to OnChange - Add comment on NTP to readme - Change to nmea_msgs - Add automatic addition of needed sub messages - Comment out setting debug level - Add comments and fix spelling errors - Merge pull request #42 from thomasemter/dev/refactor Dev/refactor - Change to quaternion msg typedef - Comment out debug logging - Remove filling of seq field - Change msg definitions to be compatible with ROS2 - Update readme - Change make_shared for portability and add more typedefs - Add get param int fallback for numeric antenna serial numbers - Change Attitude to be published with pvt rate - Add log identifier - Add checks for relevant ros params - Concatenate multiple SBF blocks in streams - Move main into own file - Move get ros time to AsyncManager - Remove obsolete param comment - Move get ros params to base class - Change to nsec timestamp internally - Add publishing functionality to node base class - Move node handle ptr and functions to base class and rename - Add stamp to nmea parsing - Add logging in PcapReader - Add logging in CircularBuffer - Add missed logging - Add logging in AsyncManager - Add getTime function - Add logging in RxMessage - Add logging in CallbackHandlers - Add log function to node by polymorphism, logging in Comm_OI - Fix wait function and force use_gnss_time when reading from file - Add thread shutdown and remove spurious delete - Add typedefs for ins messages - Add typedefs for gnss messages - Add typedefs for ros messages - Refine shutdown - Fix shutdown escalating to SIGTERM - Move waiting for response in send function - Make functions private - Change crc to C++ - Fix variable name - Remove global variables from node cpp file - Move more global settings to settings struct - Move more global settings to settings struct - Move global settings to settings struct - Move more functions to Comm_IO - Move settings to struct and configuration to Comm_IO - Merge branch \'dev/change_utc_calculation\' into dev/refactor - Remove obsolete global variables - Move g_unix_time to class - Make has_arrived booleans class memebers and rx_message a persistent class - Make node handle a class member - Fix parsing of ID and rev - Finish ChannelStatusGrammar, to be tested - WIP, partially fix ChannelStatusGrammar - Add SBF length parsing utility - Insert spirit parsers - WIP, add omission of padding bytes - WIP, add more spirit parsers - Add parsing utilities for tow, wnc and ID - Move getId/Tow/Wnc to parsing utilities - Change UTC calculation to use tow and wnc - WIP, add boost spirit and endian buffers - Change UTC calculation to use tow and wnc

• Update Readme and Changelog

• Contributors: Thomas Emter, Tibor Dome

1.0.8 (2021-10-23)

• Added INS Support

1.0.7 (2021-05-18)

• Clang formatting, publishing from SBF log, play-back of PCAP files

1.0.6 (2020-10-16)

• ROSaic binary installation now available on Melodic & Noetic

1.0.5 (2020-10-15)

• changed repo name
• v1.0.4
• 1.0.3
• Merge pull request #22 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor New changelog
• New changelog
• Merge pull request #21 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor Added rosdoc.yaml file
• Merge pull request #20 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor Improved doxygen annotations
• Merge pull request #19 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor Improved doxygen annotations
• Update README.md
• Merge pull request #18 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor Adopted ROS and C++ conventions, added ROS diagnostics msg,
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• Contributors: septentrio-users, tibordome

1.0.4 (2020-10-11)

• Added rosdoc.yaml file
• Improved doxygen annotations
• Improved doxygen annotations
• Adopted ROS and C++ conventions, added ROS diagnostics msg, removed ROS garbage value bug, added auto-detection of SBF arrival order for composite ROS msgs
• Merge branch \'master\' of https://github.com/septentrio-gnss/rosaic
• NTRIP with Datalink, circular buffer, reading connection descriptor, new messages
• Update README.md
• Contributors: septentrio-users, tibordome

1.0.3 (2020-09-30)

• Add new config/rover.yaml file
• Add config/rover.yaml to .gitignore
• Merge pull request #17 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor NTRIP with Datalink, circular buffer, reading connection descriptor..
• Merge branch \'local_tibor\'
• NTRIP with Datalink, circular buffer, reading connection descriptor, new messages
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• Merge pull request #16 from septentrio-gnss/local_tibor NTRIP parameters added, reconnect_delay_s implemented,
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• Merge pull request #15 from tibordome/local_tibor GPSFix completed, datum as new parameter
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• Merge pull request #14 from tibordome/local_tibor GPSFix completed, datum as new parameter
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• Merge pull request #13 from tibordome/local_tibor Added AttCovEuler.msg and AttEuler.msg
• Merge pull request #12 from tibordome/local_tibor Fixed service field of NavSatStatus
• Contributors: Tibor Dome, septentrio-users, tibordome

1.0.2 (2020-09-25)

• NTRIP parameters added, reconnect_delay_s implemented, package.xml updated, ROSaic now detects connection descriptor automatically, mosaic serial port parameter added
• GPSFix completed, datum as new parameter, ANT type and marker-to-arp distances as new parameters, BlockLength() method corrected, sending multiple commands to Rx corrected by means of mutex
• Contributors: tibordome

1.0.1 (2020-09-22)

• GPSFix completed, datum as new parameter, ANT type and marker-to-arp distances as new parameters, BlockLength() method corrected, sending multiple commands to Rx corrected by means of mutex
• Added AttCovEuler.msg and AttEuler.msg
• Fixed service field of NavSatStatus, fixed ROS header\'s seq field of each published ROS message, added write method for sending commands to Rx, successfully tested, added AttEuler, added AttCovEuler
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• Merge pull request #11 from tibordome/local_tibor rosconsole_backend_interface dependency not needed
• rosconsole_backend_interface dependency not needed
• Merge pull request #10 from tibordome/local_tibor rosconsole_log4cxx dep not needed
• rosconsole_log4cxx dep not needed
• Merge pull request #9 from tibordome/local_tibor rosconsole_log4cxx dep not needed
• rosconsole_log4cxx dep not needed
• Merge pull request #8 from tibordome/local_tibor Local tibor
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• Merge pull request #7 from tibordome/local_tibor Ready for First Release
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• Merge pull request #6 from tibordome/local_tibor Local tibor
• Merge pull request #5 from tibordome/local_tibor TCP seems to work
• Contributors: Tibor Dome, tibordome

1.0.0 (2020-09-11)

• Ready for first release
• Added Gpgga.msg and PosCovGeodetic.msg files
• Ready for First Release
• Ready for first release
• Ready for first release
• Ready for first release
• TCP bug removed
• TCP bug removed
• TCP seems to work
• Merge pull request #4 from tibordome/v0.2 V0.2
• PVTCartesian and PVTGeodetic publishing works on serial
• PVTCartesian and PVTGeodetic publishing works on serial
• Merge pull request #3 from tibordome/v0.2 Add doxygen_out and Doxyfile 2nd trial
• Add doxygen_out and Doxyfile 2nd trial
• Merge pull request #2 from tibordome/v0.1 Add doxygen_out and Doxyfile
• Add doxygen_out and Doxyfile
• Update README.md
• Create README.md
• Update LICENSE
• Merge pull request #1 from tibordome/add-license-1 Create LICENSE
• Create LICENSE
• Create LICENSE
• Commit
• Successfully tested publishing to /gpgga topic via serial
• To make sure master branch exists
• Contributors: Tibor Dome, tibordome