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How to solve Warning with /imu_frame using robot_localization package?

asked 2018-01-24 14:48:16 -0500

VitorHirozawa gravatar image

Hi, I am using robot_localization package on ROS Kinetic to fuse imu data with wheel encoder odometry and generate a odometry/filtered message to navigate using AMCL for localization. My robot uses a raspberry pi 3 running Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2 and Arduino boards. It uses a Neato XV-11 Lidar for the laser scans. My launch works but the terminal does not stop to print this Warning message:

Warning: Invalid argument "/imu_frame" passed to canTransform argument source_frame in tf2 frame_ids cannot start with a '/' like: 
         at line 134 in /tmp/binarydeb/ros-kinetic-tf2-0.5.16/src/buffer_core.cpp

Also, in Rviz the topic /odometry/filtered got blinking errors at a rate of 4 Hz.

The Rviz error :

Transform [sender=unknown_publisher]
For frame [odom]: No transform to fixed frame [map]. TF error: [Lookup would require extrapolation into the future. Requested time 1516667536.039499044 but the latest data is at time 1516667536.027499399, when looking up transform from frame [odom] to frame [map]]

When it has no error:

Transform [sender=unknown_publisher]
Transform OK

What is the error in my application? Is there a solution to stop this warning?

Thank you! =)

I tried to upload images but I dont have points enough in ros answers.

My tf tree is:

Map -----/amcl (avg rate:4.05)-----> odom ----- /ekf_localization_node_odom2base (avg rate 49.5) ---> base_link

base_link ------- /tf_neato (avg rate:96.7) ------ > laser

base_link -------- /tf_imu (avg rate: 97.0) ---------> imu_frame

Here is the ekf_localization.yaml config file:

#2nd config for the 2nd node to make tf odom to base_link
#It is almost identical, just world_frame: odom. 

#Configuration for robot odometry EKF
#
frequency: 50

two_d_mode: true

publish_tf: true

base_link_frame: base_link
odom_frame: odom
map_frame: map
world_frame: odom

#meaning_matrix_config: [   X,           Y,      Z,
#                       roll,       pitch,    yaw,
#                       X/dt,        Y/dt,    Z/dt,
#                       roll/dt, pitch/dt,  yaw/dt,
#                       X/dt2,      Z/dt2,   Z/dt2]

odom0: /odom
odom0_config: [false, false, false,
               false, false, false,
               true, true, false,
               false, false, true,
               false, false, false]
odom0_differential: false

imu0: /imu
imu0_config: [false, false, false,
               false, false, true,
               false, false, false,
               false, false, true,
               true, false, false]
imu0_differential: false

Here is the terminal of my_file.launch:

... logging to /home/pi/.ros/log/a276a068-ffcc-11e7-a672-b827ebd25c92/roslaunch-pi-desktop-730.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

started roslaunch server http://10.42.0.1:45873/

SUMMARY
========

PARAMETERS
 * /amcl/base_frame_id: base_link
 * /amcl/first_map_only: False
 * /amcl/global_frame_id: map
 * /amcl/gui_publish_rate: 10.0
 * /amcl/kld_err: 0.01
 * /amcl/kld_z: 0.99
 * /amcl/laser_lambda_short: 0.1
 * /amcl/laser_likelihood_max_dist: 2.0
 * /amcl/laser_max_beams: 100
 * /amcl/laser_max_range: -1
 * /amcl/laser_min_range: -1
 * /amcl/laser_model_type: likelihood_field
 * /amcl/laser_sigma_hit: 0.1
 * /amcl/laser_z_hit: 0.85
 * /amcl/laser_z_max: 0.0
 * /amcl/laser_z_rand: 0.15
 * /amcl/laser_z_short: 0.0
 * /amcl/max_particles: 3000
 * /amcl/min_particles: 500
 * /amcl/odom_alpha1: 0.1
 * /amcl/odom_alpha2: 0.1
 * /amcl/odom_alpha3: 0.1
 * /amcl/odom_alpha4: 0.1
 * /amcl/odom_alpha5: 0.1
 * /amcl/odom_frame_id: odom
 * /amcl/odom_model_type: diff
 * /amcl/recovery_alpha_fast: 0.0
 * /amcl/recovery_alpha_slow: 0.0
 * /amcl/resample_interval: 1
 * /amcl/save_pose_rate: 0 ...
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answered 2018-01-25 01:19:52 -0500

mgruhler gravatar image

I'm answering your main question now:

tf2 expects all Frames without a leading /. So you need to remove this leading / in your IMU node. Either via config, if possible, or in the source code.

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