Hi,
actually i did use the tutorial to configure the robot. My setup is almost the same as the files listed in the tutorial, except that the costmap configuration is set to a differential robot.
From what i could see using rxgraph, i'm getting the following messages into move_base:

1) Odometry
2) Odometry tf 
3) laser tf (base_link to base_laser)
4) laserscan

I'm not using a static map, so I removd amcl from move_base.launch.
When i start the move_base.launch file, i get the following:

[ INFO] 1271252548.078700000: Subscribed to Topics: laser_scan_sensor
[ INFO] 1271252548.178918000: MAP SIZE: 199, 199
[ INFO] 1271252548.185354000: Subscribed to Topics: laser_scan_sensor
[ WARN] 1271252563.370080000: MessageNotifier [topic=scan, target=/base_laser /base_laser ]: Dropped 100.00% of messages so far. Please turn the [ros.costmap_2d.message_notifier] rosconsole logger to DEBUG for more information.

Using rxloggerlevel to debug, here's the output:

[DEBUG] 1271251959.320831000: MessageNotifier [topic=scan, target=/odom /base_laser ]: Added message in frame laser at time 1271251959.264, count now 50
[DEBUG] 1271251959.320973000: MessageNotifier [topic=scan, target=/odom /base_laser ]: Removed oldest message because buffer is full, count now 50 (frame_id=laser, stamp=1271251958.043920)

[DEBUG] 1271251959.599588000: MessageNotifier [topic=scan, target=/base_laser /base_laser ]: Successful Transforms: 0, Failed Transforms: 4051196, Discarded due to age: 0, Transform messages received: 67611, Messages received: 26918, Total dropped: 26868

Also, to view the laser scan image in rviz, i get the following error:

TOPIC : No messages received
Transform[sender=/laser] : For frame [laser]: Frame [laser] does not exist


Any suggestions?

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Eitan Marder-Eppstein <eitan@willowgarage.com> wrote:
Hitesh,

If you're trying to run the navigation stack on your own robot, I'd suggest reading the following tutorial first, http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup/, as it will explain how the pieces of the navigation stack work and how you'll need to configure your robot.

From the errors you listed, it looks like your robot may not be publishing odometry information to the navigation stack. Also, amcl will not work without a static map... so that's expected.

Hopefully, the tutorial will help, feel free to post again if you have other questions,

Eitan

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:49 AM, hitesh dhiman <hitesh.dhiman.1988@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to run the navigation stack. However, upon running move_base.launch, i get the following message:

[ WARN] 1271162502.543875000: Costmap2DROS transform timeout. Current time: 1271162502.5438, global_pose stamp: 1271162501.8677, tolerance: 0.3000

I tried changing the tolerance value to 1. move_base.launch starts with the following:
[ INFO] 1271162733.968657000: Subscribed to Topics: laser_scan_sensor
[ INFO] 1271162734.066727000: MAP SIZE: 199, 199

A second later, i start getting these messages:

[ WARN] 1271162749.245438000: MessageNotifier [topic=scan, target=/odom /base_laser ]: Dropped 100.00% of messages so far. Please turn the [ros.costmap_2d.message_notifier] rosconsole logger to DEBUG for more information.

rxconsole gives the following:
Request for map failed, trying again...  Warn /amcl
This could be because i'm not using any static map. Even so, move_base is not publishing any messages out.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm not able to figure out where the problem is.

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Hitesh Dhiman
Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore

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