displaying COLLADA 1.4 models in rviz

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Thanks Ryohei (and Rosen) for your suggestions - after re-compiling rviz/robot_model from trunk, I was able to see the Barrett hand COLLADA model in rviz.

Then I had our summer intern work furiously to make a COLLADA model of our robot, using Blender. But it seems to only export COLLADA 1.4, and rviz/robot_model seems to only accept COLLADA 1.5.

Any advice on how to use my COLLADA 1.4 model in rviz/robot_model, or an export sequence that will get me from Blender to COLLADA 1.5?

Thanks! -Nick

PS - I would attach the model itself, but I can't due to propriety of information...

From: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Ryohei Ueda

Hi Nick

have you (re-)compiled rviz with the trunk robot_model stack?

-- ryohei

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Armstrong-Crews, Nicholas - 0447 - MITLL nickarmstrongcrews@ll.mit.edu > wrote: Has anybody done this successfully? It’s giving me trouble…

I’m following this tutorial: http://www.ros.org/wiki/collada_urdf/... th%20COLLADA

I get the output:

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…

process[collada_joint_publisher]: started

process[rviz]: started

[ERROR]: No name given for the robot

[ERROR]: No name given for the robot

The model loads fine in the adjacent OpenRAVE 0.4.0 window, but rviz gives me the status error: “URDF failed Model parse”.

I’m using ROS diamondback binaries with jsk-ros-pkg. I’ve tried with both the diamondback release version of robot_model, and the 1.5.1 release from the trunk (as downloaded by jsk_ros_patch). I’ve also tried with one of the stock models from the collada_robots package.

Any bright ideas?

Thanks! -Nick