What are the ROS Message Types

A cheatsheet of the important message types (structures)

geometry_msgs/Twist.msg

• Vector3 linear

• Vector3 angular

geometry_msgs/Pose2D.msg

• float64 x

• float64 y

• float64 theta

geometry_msgs/Pose.msg

• Point position

• Quaternion orientation

geometry_msgs/Quaternion.msg

• float64 x

• float64 y

• float64 z

• float64 w

geometry_msgs/QuaternionStamped.msg

• Header header

• Quaternion quaternion

std_msgs/Header.msg

• uint32 seq

• time stamp

• string frame_id

geometry_msgs/Vector3.msg

• float64 x

• float64 y

• float64 z

geometry_msgs/Point.msg

• float64 x

• float64 y

• float64 z