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Robot model not showing in rviz

asked 2017-07-13 12:10:22 -0600

Borob gravatar image

I am trying to work with this repository: https://github.com/udacity/RoboND-Kin...

I did all the initial steps that are mentioned in the repo but have troubles showing the robot urdf in rviz. Since the people over there can't help I hope that someone here can point me in the right direction.

When I just want to load the urdf in rviz like this (in individual shells):

roscore
rosrun rviz rviz
roslaunch kuka_arm load_urdf.launch

I just see the gripper. You can see this in the first photo attached.

The urdf to me looks fine and there are no errors anywhere.

When I run the whole demo, like this:

rosrun kuka_arm safe_spawner.sh

I can verify that the model is correctly loaded in gazebo as you can see in the second screenshot. I tried this on two computers, one in a VM, one natively and with integrated graphics and dedicated nvidia card.

Can anyone else please check the urdf and help me out in determining what the problem here is?

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Do you have the robot description on the VM? Which computer is not showing the model?

allenh1 gravatar image allenh1  ( 2017-07-13 12:35:47 -0600 )edit

I set up everything like it says in the readme on both. And it is not showing on either.

Borob gravatar image Borob  ( 2017-07-13 12:37:11 -0600 )edit

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answered 2018-07-09 16:58:44 -0600

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updated 2018-07-09 16:59:37 -0600

Some rviz users have encountered a similar issue on newer ubuntu/debian versions e.g. ROS Lunar on Ubuntu Artful or ROS Melodic on Ubuntu Bionic (see for example: https://github.com/ros-visualization/... ). The issue may be related to your locales.

If that's the underlying issue, modifying the following environment variable will fix it for you:

export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8".

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This was a lifesaver, thank you!

diogoa gravatar image diogoa  ( 2019-01-04 10:37:27 -0600 )edit

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