About the tutorial on Setting up your robot using tf

asked 2014-03-09 05:15:31 -0600

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I followed the tutorial here => wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup/TF on the TF (sorry my karma doesn't allow me to post link) and I had those lines at the end of the make file

add_executable(tf_broadcaster src/tf_broadcaster.cpp)
add_executable(tf_listener src/tf_listener.cpp)
target_link_libraries(tf_broadcaster ${catkin_LIBRARIES})
target_link_libraries(tf_listener ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

Then I used catkin_make that compile without a problem but when I use

rosrun robot_setup_tf tf_broadcaster

I have in my terminal this

[rosrun] Couldn't find executable named tf_broadcaster below /home/ros/catkin_ws/src/robot_setup_tf

After a few search it appears that the file is actually situated here

/home/ros/catkin_ws/devel/lib/robot_setup_tf

I can launch it manually and it's working perfectly, it just that I can't understand why it's there and not in the src folder of the robot_setup_tf. If someone could explain to me.

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I tried "source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash" without much success. Nor wth the setup.bash in the devel of my catkin directory.

Maya ( 2014-03-09 22:11:36 -0600 )edit

The one in the devel directory of your catkin workspace is the right one to source. I get the same error when I try to run an executable that does not exist. (also with ~/catkin_ws/src/...)