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
> <lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu <mailto:lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu>> 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
>> <lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu <mailto:lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu>> 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
>>
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