Exception thrown:"world" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist. [closed]

asked 2014-06-28 19:53:50 -0500

jackcviers gravatar image

In Writing a tf broadcaster (Python)

 $ rosrun tf tf_echo /world /turtle1

the terminal outputs the following error:

Failure at 1404002761.660228438
Exception thrown:"world" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist. 
The current list of frames is:

Does this indicate that a link is missing from "world" to the "base_link" of turtlesim? How might one go about fixing this apparent error?

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Can you tell us that the current list of frames actually is? You may be running into a problem due to the frames you want existing but with a `tf_prefix` specified, so you won't see them if you're just looking for `/world`, because they actually exist as `/tf_prefix/world`.

bjem85 gravatar image bjem85  ( 2014-06-29 17:36:24 -0500 )edit

After rerunning the tutorial in a completely new workspace, it worked as described. Not sure what was going on, but something was apparently messed up.

jackcviers gravatar image jackcviers  ( 2014-07-17 19:28:21 -0500 )edit

I had the same error in the tf tutorial for writing a broadcaster (cpp). My mistake was to forget to assign the value for turtle_name after the check for the right number of arguments.

count_dueki gravatar image count_dueki  ( 2017-05-15 14:13:46 -0500 )edit

For me, I solves it by creating a folder named launch under catkin_ws/src/learning_tf2 and put start_demo.launch there.

keineahnung2345 gravatar image keineahnung2345  ( 2021-08-06 23:00:15 -0500 )edit
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