[ros-users] No transform from map to odom. Please help.

[Brian Gerkey]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:22 AM, ian_wk <i2rshuttle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried using the debugging tools. But it say that the /map frame does not
> exist.
>
> Failure at 1285669196.016388955
> Exception thrown:Frame id /map does not exist! When trying to transform
> between /odom and /map.
> The current list of frames is:
>
> Do I need to provide the laser scan topic before amcl can work?
> Right now, I launch map_server and amcl only.

Yes, you need to provide laser data.  amcl doesn't do anything until
it receives at least one laser scan message.

	brian.