Kinect openni_launch TF2 exception warning

asked 2014-10-06 17:45:21 -0500

yoo00
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Hi all,

I tried to run other package with openni_launch of ASUS Xtion. In the launch file of other package, it subscribes to /camera/depth_registered/points, /camera/rgb/image_raw, /camera/depth_registered/image, and /camera/depth/camera_info. When I launched roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch, it was fine. But when I launched the other package, I got this following warning repeating over and over and could not subscribe to kinect rostopics.

[ WARN] [1412634733.035488109]: TF2 exception: Invalid argument "/camera_rgb_optical_frame" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame in tf2 frame_ids cannot start with a '/' like:

Anyone who has seen this warning before? I am using ubuntu 14.04 and ROS indigo. I did openni-related apt-gets and installed openni_launch. The version of my ASUS Xtion is old one, so openni_launch package is comparable with it, and I was able to subscribe all of rostopics properly, which is fine. It looks like TF2 related problem, but I do not know exactly why it happened.

Thank you.

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answered 2014-10-06 17:55:20 -0500

James Diprose
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Its because the launch file in openni_launch hasn't been updated to remove the slashes from the cameras frame_ids. You can edit the launch file openni.launch and remove the "/" from "/camera_rgb_optical_frame" (I cant remember exactly, but I think that launch file actually includes another file with a whole lot of parameters - which is the one you want to edit).

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You're right! After I removed $(arg tf_prefix) prefixes in openni.launch file, it worked fine. Thank you James!

yoo00 ( 2014-10-06 19:23:54 -0500 )edit

No worries :)

James Diprose ( 2014-10-06 21:23:26 -0500 )edit

Hello, I could not solve this problem, Will you kindly explain it in more clear way? I could not find $(arg tf_prefix) in openni.launch. In my openni.launch file it is like this <arg name="rgb_frame_id" default="/$(arg camera)_rgb_optical_frame"/> Thanks