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Note the yellow arrow denotes the starting point of the robot. The current pose of the robot doesn't have a dedicated visualization per default (apart from the trajectory visualization ending somewhere). Historically, the geotiff plugin originated from RoboCup Rescue rules requirements and this was what was requested there.

The fact that the geotiff writer wrote a correct trajectory (which calls the trajectory service behind the scenes) suggests that the trajectory service works. My guess is that the workspace you have sourced on your remote computer (from which you called the service) does not contain hector_nav_msgs. You can probably fix this by simply running

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-hector-nav-msgs