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[RFC] Getting feedback from base controller

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I have a situation in which my robot's base controller (using the terminology from [this block diagram](http://wiki.ros.org/move_base?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=overview_tf.png)) is somewhat complex. It has internal logic by which it might determine that...

Backport support for multiple visuals to Kinetic

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In Kinetic (and probably Indigo), if you define multiple `visual` tags within a `link` tag, I get a warning like this: ``` Scalar element defined multiple times: visual ``` That...

Consider narrowing the scope of `#undef ERROR` in generated message code

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https://github.com/ros2/rosidl/commit/d4264b70387e91b8f46a40ff307881f28ff07c04#commitcomment-17146232

Parameter doesn't allow setting of name or value

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The `ParameterVariant` class requires the name and value (and thus type) of the variable to be passed to the constructor. To make it easier to use, we should add `set_name()`...

No comms on OSX

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I'm trying out cros on OSX 10.10. I have a branch that fixes simple compile problems and avoids passing -1 file descriptors to `FD_SET()` (the manpage says that this leads...

reverse rotation in IMU linear acceleration calculation

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I'm working with a Gazebo model in which the link to which I'm attaching a hector IMU is rotated to have Z down. In that situation, I find that the...

When using `pkg-config`, we're [working around](https://github.com/gerkey/ros1_external_use/blob/master/ros1_comms/Makefile#L9-L14) a pre-existing issue, specifically ros/catkin#694. It was fixed for internal-to-ROS use in ros/ros#87, but the [problem persists for external-to-ROS use](https://github.com/ros/catkin/issues/694#issuecomment-128291617). We should actually fix...