CPose3DQuatPDF.h

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#ifndef CPose3DQuatPDF_H
#define CPose3DQuatPDF_H

#include <mrpt/poses/CPose3D.h>
#include <mrpt/poses/CPose3DQuat.h>
#include <mrpt/math/CMatrixD.h>
#include <mrpt/utils/CProbabilityDensityFunction.h>

namespace mrpt
{
        namespace poses
        {
                using namespace mrpt::math;

                class CPosePDF;
                class CPose3DPDF;

                DEFINE_SERIALIZABLE_PRE_CUSTOM_BASE( CPose3DQuatPDF, mrpt::utils::CSerializable )

                /** Declares a class that represents a Probability Density Function (PDF) of a 3D pose (6D actually), by means of a 7-vector with a translation [x y z] and a quaternion [qr qx qy qz].
                 *   This class is just the base class for unifying many diferent ways this PDF can be implemented.
                 *
                 *  For convenience, a pose composition is also defined for any
                 *    PDF derived class, changeCoordinatesReference, in the form of a method rather than an operator.
                 *
                 *  - For a similar class for 3D points (without attitude), see CPointPDF.
                 *  - For a similar class for 3D poses  (with Euler angles instead of quaternions), see CPose3DPDF.
                 *
                 *
                 *  See also the tutorial on <a href="http://www.mrpt.org/Probability_Density_Distributions_Over_Spatial_Representations" >probabilistic spatial representations in the MRPT</a>.
                 *
                 * \sa CPose3DQuatPDF, CPose3DPDF
                 * \ingroup poses_pdf_grp
                 */
                class BASE_IMPEXP CPose3DQuatPDF :
                        public mrpt::utils::CSerializable,
                        public mrpt::utils::CProbabilityDensityFunction<CPose3DQuat,7>
                {
                        DEFINE_VIRTUAL_SERIALIZABLE( CPose3DQuatPDF )

                 public:
                        /** Copy operator, translating if necesary (for example, between particles and gaussian representations)
                          * \sa createFrom2D
                          */
                        virtual void  copyFrom(const CPose3DQuatPDF &o) = 0;

                        /** This is a static transformation method from 2D poses to 3D PDFs, preserving the representation type (particles->particles, Gaussians->Gaussians,etc)
                          *  It returns a new object of any of the derived classes of CPose3DQuatPDF. This object must be deleted by the user when not required anymore.
                          *  \sa copyFrom
                          */
                        static CPose3DQuatPDF* createFrom2D(const CPosePDF &o);

                        /** Bayesian fusion of two pose distributions, then save the result in this object (WARNING: Currently only distributions of the same class can be fused! eg, gaussian with gaussian,etc)
                          */
                        virtual void  bayesianFusion(const  CPose3DQuatPDF &p1, const CPose3DQuatPDF &p2 )  = 0 ;

                        /** Returns a new PDF such as: NEW_PDF = (0,0,0) - THIS_PDF
                          */
                        virtual void  inverse(CPose3DQuatPDF &o) const = 0;

                        /** Returns a 3D representation of this PDF.
                          * \note Needs the mrpt-opengl library, and using mrpt::opengl::CSetOfObjectsPtr as template argument.
                          */
                        template <class OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR>
                        inline void getAs3DObject(OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR &out_obj) const {
                                typedef typename OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR::value_type SETOFOBJECTS;
                                *out_obj = *SETOFOBJECTS::posePDF2opengl(*this);
                        }

                        /** Returns a 3D representation of this PDF.
                          * \note Needs the mrpt-opengl library, and using mrpt::opengl::CSetOfObjectsPtr as template argument.
                          */
                        template <class OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR>
                        inline OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR getAs3DObject() const {
                                typedef typename OPENGL_SETOFOBJECTSPTR::value_type SETOFOBJECTS;
                                return SETOFOBJECTS::posePDF2opengl(*this);
                        }

                }; // End of class def.

        } // End of namespace
} // End of namespace

#endif