Problems while visualizing rosbag laserScans on Rviz
A brief summarize of the settings under ROS electric on ubuntu: We are running a rosbag file on loop mode and while trying to visualize the data on Rviz, it disappears at the beginning of each loop.
We have recorded all the tf frames, odometry and laserScan topics on the rosbag file. Using the rostopic echo tool, we have checked that data was being published all the time, but we can't visualize anything during the first 10 seconds or so of each loop. After a certain amount of time, it seems like everything runs fine again, but we have no idea what might be wrong, any idea?
EDITED: well, I guess there are some problems on the tf, as the laser scans are showed as usual if I fix the frame to the laser frame, but happens as described above if the fixed frame is any other (ie: base link).
on response to the first answer, the behavior is the same playing the rosbag either on loop or normal mode.
Does the error still happen if you restart rviz and the log file? Maybe the tf buffers just need to fill. If you set the frame to laser frame there is no need for tf, which is why that works.
yes, the error repeats systematically on several rosbags recorded this morning, as well as real-time visualization. Right now I'm using tf_monitor to check that everything is well connected...