What did the author of the "Using the robot state publisher on your own...
[LINK TO TUTORIAL](http://wiki.ros.org/robot_state_publisher/Tutorials/Using%20the%20robot%20state%20publisher%20on%20your%20own%20robot) I am trying to figure out how to publish my robot's state using...
View ArticleMultiple publishers on joint_states topic
Hi all, I have two ROS nodes (one Hydro, the other Fuerte) that are publishing on the topic joint_states topic. The master is on Hydro and executes the node wit a PTU driver and the...
View ArticleProblem with robotino_node (state_publisher & URDF)
Hi. So I use the openrobotino catkin package and if I do: roslaunch robotino_node robotino_node.launch hostname:=172.26.1.1 I get: ... logging to...
View Articleproblems adding urdf frames to odom->base_link
I'm trying to use the slam_gmapping with my mobile robot but I'm having some troubles with the TF. Firstly I created the robot driver so that it could broadcast the odom->base_link->base_laser...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher fixed frames 0.5s ahead
Hi guys, The **robot_state_publisher** has 2 different mechanisms for publishing **moving** and **fixed** frames. Moving frames are published on **joint_states** callback. Does anyone know why...
View ArticleAbout robot_state_publisher + URDF
Hi everybody, As stated in this [post](http://answers.ros.org/question/186976/how-to-combine-joint-state-publisher-with-urdf/) (see answer of Ahendrix) one should load the urdf model using the...
View Articlelaser_frame not moving
I have the following scheme in simulation enviroment with Gazebo and Rviz: laser_frame -> base_link -> base_stabilized -> base_footprint -> odom -> map -> world laser_frame to...
View ArticleRequiring deep understanding of robot_state_publisher and TF
Hi all, I have turtlebot2, groovy, turtlebot arm. In reading the tutorial Using urdf with [robot_state_publisher](http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Using%20urdf%20with%20robot_state_publisher), I'm...
View ArticleRviz "No transform from [] to []" without /joint_states
Hi, I'm trying to display a robot using rviz, and when I start up the visualizer it gives me a plethora of "no transform from [link_1] to [link_2]" errors under the RobotModel tab if I'm not publishing...
View ArticleAdding two robots in gazebo tfs problem and urdf files
I want to add two robots in gazebo. The first robot is a quadrotor from hector package the second robot is husky I used apt-get to download both of then except the husky_description. I used git clone...
View Articlestageros old tf time stamps
Hi, I am trying to run a simulation of Pioneer 3DX robot using p2os-vanderbilt, gmapping, stageros and rviz on ROS Hydro, Ubuntu 12.04. The simulation and visualisation works fine however I am getting...
View ArticleHow to make rviz model follow joint states with MoveIt?
Hello everyone, I have the following problem: I successfully configured moveit for my robot. Now I want my rviz visualization to follow the robot movement, hence when the robot moves, it shoult move as...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher link publish frequency not consistent
I have a urdf model of a human hand in Rviz for which I update its position via my own tf broadcaster. I have noticed that when I move the hand the fingers lag behind the wrist. I am updating the...
View ArticleRviz reporting no fixed frame
I'm trying to complete the [robot state publisher tutorial](http://www.romin.upm.es/wiki/index.php?title=ROS%3ATutorials/Robot_State_Publisher), but when I run: roslaunch myrobot_description...
View ArticleMoveIt joint_state_publisher not publishing to robot_state_publisher
I am working on a 7-DOF manipulator with MoveIt and have calculated a series of joint vectors. I want to publish these joint vectors to the **joint states topic** so as to see the visualization in...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher: symbol lookup error
Hi all, for some reason, robot_state_publisher does not work anymore. When I run it, I get: /opt/ros/indigo/lib/robot_state_publisher/robot_state_publisher...
View Articleupdate system, robot_state_publisher process always die
Hi, all I have meet a strange problem. I just update something in my system yesterday under the upgrade pushing notify and also used the command sudo apt-get update , But today all my ros project with...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher with SDF Files
Hi all, I just want to ask about the support of robot_state_publisher with SDF Files, can we use it to broadcast the state of the robot to the TF Transform Library using SDF Files (not URDF Files). One...
View ArticleRobot state publisher has died error code -7
Hi, recently I upgraded my ODROID XU3 using apt-get and since then I haven't been able to launch robot state publisher which is crucial for my finals project. Whenever I want to launch my launch file,...
View ArticleRobot_state_publisher dies on ARM-based Turtlebot
Whenever I run `roslanch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch` I get the following error: [robot_state_publisher-2] process has died [pid 1597, exit code -11, cmd...
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