Robot not visible in RViz (Kinetic, Ubuntu 16.04, VMWare Fusion 10.0.1)
Going through a PacktPub book's tutorial on ROS, Effective Robotics Programming with ROS. I'm hoping the community has solutions.
In Chapter 4, I tried running
roslaunch robot1_description display.launch model:="'rospack find robot1_description'/urdf/robot1.urdf"
and managed to get the rviz window up and running, However, there were no robots as described in the .urdf file in the display.launch file.
I have edited the last line as suggested in #q113561, but to no avail.
Can you please tell us which OS this is, which version, how you installed it, how you installed ROS, and which version of ROS this is?
I've seen similar questions about RViz on certain Ubuntu versions not rendering correctly.
And for the future: please include that sort of information.
I am on VMWare Fusion 10.0.1, Ubuntu 16.04, ROS Kinetic.
Installed ROS on the ROS Kinetic Installation page.
Btw: can you add a screenshot showing the RViz window, and add the console output you get after running the
roslaunch robot1_description ..command?I've changed the title to better reflect the problem, and I've updated the formatting of your question a bit.
Console output:
PARAMETERS * /robot_description:
/rosdistro: kinetic
/rosversion: 1.12.7
/use_gui: False
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NODES /
joint_state_publisher (joint_state_publisher/joint_state_publisher)
robot_state_publisher (robot_state_publisher/state_publisher)
rviz (rviz/rviz)
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
core service [/rosout] found
process[joint_state_publisher-1]: started with pid [53550]
process[robot_state_publisher-2]: started with pid [53551]
process[rviz-3]: started with pid [53552]
How do I add a screenshot?
Please edit your question, do not use comments. They are too limited and are not meant for this.