reload urdf for robot_state_publisher?
I am currently improving the calibration procedure for my robot and create an urdf-file according to some calibration values. After I have measured a new value (e.g. maximal position for an axis), I...
View ArticleIs there a environmental variable for current namespace in launchfiles?
Hi, I have created an multirobot launch for Gazebo. Now I found out that there is a solvable problem with the namespace in the robot state publisher. I solved it with adding a tf_prefix. But now here...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher, for gazebo only or for actual robot?
Hi all The robot_state_publisher publishes transform (which is usually based on the URDF file specified). But when we are talking about the URDF file, we are usually talking about Gazebo, which is for...
View Articleturtlebot apt-get update has generated an error on minimal.launch
Hi Just ran apt-get update on a turtlebot install on an odroid C1 (ARM board) running 14.04 and indigo. robot_state_publihser version is 1.10.4 After the update running minimal.launch I get the rising...
View ArticleEmpty transforms using Robot State Publisher
Hi guys, I'm trying to broadcast moving joint states using my robot state publisher. I echoed the topic on which I broadcast my state, all I get is : transforms: [] --- Here's my code section...
View ArticleTF: request latest transform -> interpolation into the future
As stated in the [tutorial](http://wiki.ros.org/tf/Tutorials/tf%20and%20Time%20%28Python%29) the following code listener.waitForTransform( 'X', 'Y', rospy.Time(), rospy.Duration(5)) (a,b) =...
View ArticleHow to print pose of a robot using robot_state_publisher
Hi, I want to print the pose of my robot using robot_state_publisher. I am adding the following code in my launch file > type="state_publisher"> name="robot_state_publisher">...
View ArticleNo transform from links to odom in rviz
I built an URDF model from scratch and launched successfully in gazebo. Then i added the differential_drive and joint_state plug-ins to the urdf model as...
View ArticleTf origin is away from the base_link
I have built my differential drive mobile robot in solidworks and converted that to URDF file using soliworks2urdf convertor. I successfully launched and robot and simulated with tele-operation node....
View ArticleHow can I use tf_keyboard_cal to calibrate my camera position?
I would like to be able to change the robot-->camera tf via keyboard. But if I remove the fixed robot-->camera transformation from my urdf and publish the correct tf via tf_keyboard_cal the...
View Articlepossible to use tf for robot_state_publisher?
hi, i got a urdf file with two bodies and one joint. With the robot_state_publisher, i can send joint_states and the robot is moving in rviz to this joint_state. I got tf of the second body from...
View Articleuwsim_binary: symbol lookup error robot_state_publisher
Installed uwsim on Ubuntu 14.04 through apt-get. Got this when running `rosrun uwsim uwsim`: /opt/ros/jade/lib/uwsim/uwsim_binary: symbol lookup error: /opt/ros/jade/lib/libuwsim.so: undefined symbol:...
View Articleslow updates of links of a robot in RViz [RobotModel]
Hello, I have written a description package for iCub humanoid robot. It basically consist of a urdf model of the robot to visualize in RViz and also a ros-yarp bridge which publishes the joint...
View Articletf_prefix and tf2_web_republisher (URDF visualization in browser)
Hello everybody ! I have manage to display my custom urdf file in my browser by using [this tutorial](http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Using%20urdf%20with%20robot_state_publisher). However, when I...
View ArticleHandling IMU and Odemtry data with robot_state_publisher
I've configured robot_state_publisher to capture all my JointState messages and reflect the correct pose in Rviz. However, my robot also has an IMU, which I'm not yet using. Would it be correct to use...
View ArticleHow to visualize a real robot in Rviz
How do you run Rviz so that it shows the joint positions of a real robot in real-time? I've written a URDF file descibing a simple 2-wheeled cylindrical robot with a pan/tilt head, and I can visualize...
View ArticleUnable to start robot state publisher due to missing library
When I try to launch robot_state_publisher with the launch file: it dies with the error: /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/robot_state_publisher/state_publisher: error while loading shared libraries:...
View ArticleHow to show robot tipping over in Rviz
I've created a URDF model of my robot, linked it to Tf and configured Rviz to show my robot and show joint rotations in realtime when the actual robot moves. My robot also has an IMU that can measure...
View Articlerobot_state_publisher node does not work correctly on TK1 platform
Trying to run navigation stack on Jetson ТК1 we discovered that ROS robot_state_publisher node does not work correctly on TK1 platform. It doesn't publish joints with "fixed" links. On the Intel...
View ArticleDoes the robot_state_publisher support sensor_msgs/MultiDOFJointState messages?
Hi, I found the message definition sensor_msgs/MultiDOFJointState and was expecting robot_state_publisher to also support it:...
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