On 3/30/10 7:55 PM, Eitan Marder-Eppstein wrote: > Hey Dan, > > A few questions for ya to help figure out what's going on: > > 1) Have you tried using the rxconsole tool to see if any useful > information is being output from the system? If so, did you see > anything that seemed to be complaining or giving warnings? rxconsole doesn't show anything that seems too concerning. The worst is a bunch of Costmap2DROS transform timeout. Current time: ... > > 2) What launch files are you running on the erratic? Are they the ones > in the 2dnav_erratic package? Or different ones that you created? We > used to have an erratic in-house, but we don't anymore and its been > awhile since the 2dnav_erratic package has been tested. If you're > running with your own configuration, could you post the files so I can > take a look at them? I've attached the launch file and config files I'm using. The config files were all setup according to this: http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup > > 3) Do you see any obstacles in nav_view? On second thought, rviz is a > more powerful debugging tool for this kind of stuff. Have you tried > using rviz to get useful debugging information (whether obstacles show > up, a plan is created, etc)? You can find a tutorial on using rviz > with the navigation stack here: > http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/Using%20rviz%20with%20the%20Navigation%20Stack nav_view and rviz don't show any obstacles, plan, or really anything but the map. If I'm really lucky, rviz will show the amcl particle cloud. > > > Ok... take a shot at answering these and we'll see if that gives a bit > more insight into what's going on. > > Hope all is well, > > Eitan > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Dan Lazewatsky > > wrote: > > Thanks for the response Eitan - > I've created a map, and am trying to get an erratic to navigate in > said map using nav_view. I set up the robot according the the nav > robot setup tutorial, and when I run nav view I can see the map > and set the robot's initial pose, but trying to set the goal > doesn't seem to do anything. I get a printout from nav view saying > "setting goal: Position(...)" but that's all. > > -Dan > > > On 3/30/10 4:31 PM, Eitan Marder-Eppstein wrote: >> Dan, >> >> The wavefront package has fallen into a bit of disrepair as we >> favor our move_base package for autonomous navigation. If you're >> looking to run some autonomous navigation demos, check out the >> move_base_stage package instead of the 2dnav_stage package. The >> 2dnav_stage package will probably be removed in the near future >> to save people the confusion. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Eitan >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dan Lazewatsky >> > wrote: >> >> Hi all - I'm having some trouble using wavefront. When I try >> to start it I get this: >> >> robotics@tears$ rosrun wavefront wavefront >> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'ros::InvalidNameException' >> what(): Using ~ names with NodeHandle methods is not allowed. If you want to use private names with the NodeHandle interface, construct a NodeHandle using a private name as its namespace. e.g. ros::NodeHandle nh("~"); nh.getParam("my_private_name"); (name = [~dist_eps]) >> /home/robotics/ros/ros/bin/rosrun: line 35: 15562 Aborted $exepath "$@" >> >> Granted, I don't know what the right way to use wavefront >> since the documentation is a bit spotty. >> >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> -Dan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >