Thanks John! I'll set them appropiatelly right away, it sounds like it. For the record, I guess I can alternativelly compute the FK of each joint myself and publish them to /tf. Thank you all, Pol Monsó 2010/11/16 John Hsu [via ROS-Users] : > Hi, > All the joints in your urdf are fixed joints.  For robot state publisher to > work, you need a revolute or prismatic joint in your robot. > John > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:33 PM, pol.monso <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> Well, everything seems correct and yet it does not try to connect. The >> rosnode info robot_state_publisher output is the same as shown on >> rxgraph when mouseovering on the node right? >> >> Since it works with the tutorial urdf model, I'll try to isolate the >> problem. >> >> 2010/11/16 Wim Meeussen [via ROS-Users] >> <[hidden email]>: >> >> The two nodes not being connected was what I noticed too. I am using >> >> the robot_state_publisher as showed similarly in >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/urdf/Tutorials/Using%20urdf%20with%20robot_state_publisher >> >> which I managed to get working. >> >> >> >> If the state_publisher is supposed to automatically connect to the >> >> joint_states topic, what could prevent it to do so? >> > >> > It will automatically connect if the names of the topics match up. You >> > can check what it is trying to connect to by using "rosnode info >> > robot_state_publisher". The joint_states topic should be listed as one >> > of the subscribed topics. Also, the "rostopic info joint_states" >> > command is useful for debugging this. >> > >> > Let me know if you have any more questions. >> > >> > Wim >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > Wim Meeussen >> > Willow Garage Inc. >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > [hidden email] >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > View message @ >> > >> > http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/URDF-robot-state-publisher-TF-confusion-tp1530752p1913215.html >> > To unsubscribe from URDF -> robot_state_publisher -> TF confusion, click >> > here. >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/URDF-robot-state-publisher-TF-confusion-tp1530752p1913402.html >> Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > ________________________________ > View message @ > http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/URDF-robot-state-publisher-TF-confusion-tp1530752p1913648.html > To unsubscribe from URDF -> robot_state_publisher -> TF confusion, click > here. -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/URDF-robot-state-publisher-TF-confusion-tp1530752p1913685.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.