Hi Sabrina,
Could you check some of the debugging outputs from tf.  There are debugging methods here:  http://www.ros.org/wiki/tf/Debugging%20tools  Of particular interest is the output of view_frames. 

Also, are you running in simulation?  If so do you have /using_sim_time set to true?  This can cause a race condition at startup and cause the "no common time" error.  See documentation here http://www.ros.org/wiki/Clock

Tully

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:51 AM, <sabrinakliegl@innok.de> wrote:

Hi everybody,

I get a strange error when I try to do a transformPose:
[ERROR] ... Could not find a common time /base_link and /map
and
[ERROR] ... Could not find a connection between /base_link and /map
because they are not part of the same tree.

But when I start tf_echo /base_link /map there is a proper transformation.

The error occurred suddenly when I started a launch-file which did
work without any problem at the last startup.

'rosrun tf reset_time.py' solves the problem for a short time, but
after some successful calls of "transformPose" the error is back again.

Any ideas?

Greetings from the RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg,
Sabrina


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