[ros-users] Getting the ROS Navigation stack up and running ....

Eitan Marder-Eppstein eitan at willowgarage.com
Mon Jul 26 23:09:59 UTC 2010


Joseph,

Are you seeing any errors or warnings from move_base? It sounds like
something may be going wrong as it tries to initialize itself. Perhaps its
configured to run with a map, but one is not being provided?

-Eitan

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joseph Fernando <JosephFernando at comcast.net
> wrote:

>  Folks,
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>             I’m trying to get the Navigation Stack working for a homegrown
> robotic platform and have setup the stack as described in the robot setup
> tutorial <http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup>.
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> To test the stack/setup I am using the Sending Simple Navigation Goals<http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/SendingSimpleGoals>tutorial.   Navigation stack, as well as the simple_navigation_goals
> node are launched as described in these tutorials.
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> Now here’s the issue:  though, /move_base node is created, it seems that
> the action server is not created, and hence  simple_navigation_goals spins
> on…
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>         //wait for the action server to come up
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>   14   while(!ac.waitForServer(ros::Duration(5.0))){
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>   15     ROS_INFO("Waiting for the move_base action server to come up");
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>   16   }
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> In addition to launching the move_base node, is there anything else that
> needs to be done to create the action server….
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> Thanks
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> Joseph
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> [1]        http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup
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> [2]        http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/SendingSimpleGoals
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