Using ROS to detect obstacles

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The problem appears with ROS KINETIC as in INDIGO it works fine, but this is not the case of KINETIC which provide no disparity map

I installed ROS INDIGO and I seem to face the same problem as using ROS KINETIC, following the 'Choosing good stereo parameters' tutorial, I got till this part: $ rosrun rqt_reconfigure rqt_reconfigure reconfigure_gui started and the gui shows a blank drop down menu. I have no idea how to proceed.

Unfortunately, as I said, I don't have experience with those packages. If you like, I'll delete this answer entirely to avoid people bypassing the question because they think it's already answered.

Thanks for the offer, I think it's alright to leave the answer up, it is a good starting point for people who want to do the same thing as I did. Maybe they would have more knowledge on how to work around the errors.

Stupid question, probably, but have you started roscore and the stereo processing node first? (I haven't yet used dynamic reconfiguration, but it looks like rqt_configure just looks at the current node graph to determine what to show in its GUI.)

Also, you don't have to run rqt_configure, probably. Instead, set parameters in your launch file, then kill, edit, and restart to try different parameters. More of a pain, of course.