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Slam_Gamapping: No Map recived

asked 2018-07-20 07:29:31 -0500

lorenznew gravatar image

Hello everyone,

I've got some problems with the slam_gmapping. First of all, i want to use a Kinect to generate a Map from that data for my robots navigation stack. And navigate in that word/map afterwards. There will be two machines, one for the lowerlevel things like odometry measurement. And one for all the highlevel things like building an map and navigation.

Idea and Structure:

both PC are running ubuntu 16.0.4 and ROS Kinetic

  1. Robots PC:
  • Odometry_publisher (working)
  • Motor_control (working)
  • freenect driver for the Kinect publishing all the kinect data (working, very slow via wifi; 0.5 fps only)
  1. Desktop PC:
  • pointcloud to laserscan topic (working, very slow due to the slow pointcloud)
  • slam_gmapping (proplem see below)
  • a tf_broadcaster for all the needed transforming (working)
  • the navigation (not working yet. need the map fist)
  • Rviz to visualize the process of building the map

Things I've done so far:

Launch-files:

desktop.launch

<launch>

 <node pkg="eddie" type="tf_broadcaster" name="tf_broadcaster" output="screen">
    <param name="transform_configuration_param" value="param_value" /> 
</node> 

<node pkg="depthimage_to_laserscan" type="depthimage_to_laserscan" name="depthimage_to_laserscan">
    <param name="scan_height" value="10"/>
    <remap from="image" to="/camera/depth/image_raw"/>
</node>

<node pkg="gmapping" type="slam_gmapping" name="slam_gmapping">
    <param name="scan" value="scan"/>
    <param name="map_update_interval" value="5.0"/>
    <param name="maxUrange" value="16.0"/>
    <param name="sigma" value="0.05"/>
    <param name="kernelSize" value="1"/>
    <param name="lstep" value="0.05"/>
    <param name="astep" value="0.05"/>            <param name="iterations" value="5"/>
    <param name="lsigma" value="0.075"/>
    <param name="ogain" value="3.0"/>
    <param name="lskip" value="0"/>            <param name="srr" value="0.1"/>
    <param name="srt" value="0.2"/>
    <param name="str" value="0.1"/>
    <param name="stt" value="0.2"/>            <param name="linearUpdate" value="1.0"/>
    <param name="angularUpdate" value="0.5"/>
    <param name="temporalUpdate" value="3.0"/>
    <param name="resampleThreshold" value="0.5"/>
    <param name="particles" value="30"/>
    <param name="xmin" value="-50.0"/>
    <param name="ymin" value="-50.0"/>
    <param name="xmax" value="50.0"/>
    <param name="ymax" value="50.0"/>            <param name="delta" value="0.05"/>
    <param name="llsamplerange" value="0.01"/>
    <param name="llsamplestep" value="0.01"/>
    <param name="lasamplerange" value="0.005"/>
    <param name="lasamplestep" value="0.005"/>
</node>

</launch>

eddie.launch

<launch>

<include file="$(find freenect_launch)/launch/freenect.launch"/>

<node pkg="eddie" type="odometry_publisher" name="odometry_publisher" output="screen">

    <param name="odom_param" value="param_value" /> 

</node> 


<node pkg="eddie" type="base_control" respawn="false" name="base_control" output="screen">

    <rosparam file="$(find navigation)/costmap_common_params.yaml" command="load" ns="global_costmap" /> 
    <rosparam file="$(find navigation)/costmap_common_params.yaml" command="load" ns="local_costmap" /> 
    <rosparam file="$(find navigation)/local_costmap_params.yaml" command="load" /> 
    <rosparam file="$(find navigation)/global_costmap_params.yaml" command="load" /> 
    <rosparam file="$(find navigation)/base_local_planner_params.yaml" command="load" /> 

</node>
</launch>

I just launch this two files individually on the machines. they work together

  • i can see all topics by rostopic list
  • tf-tree is perfectly working. ( transforms for: map->odom->bas_link->camera_link->camera_frames_xxx)

Problem:

When I start Rviz for visualisation I get the warning: "No map received" I checked ... (more)

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answered 2018-07-20 08:01:30 -0500

updated 2018-07-20 08:04:52 -0500

This is probably due to the ROS environment variable ROS_HOSTNAME (or ROS_IP, doesn't matter) not properly set. On both PCs, do the following:

  • run ifconfig to find out the IP of the WiFi interface of that PC (for example 192.168.0.101 for the robot PC)
  • export ROS_HOSTNAME=192.168.0.101 (or whatever the IP of the WiFi interface of that PC is)

The reason this is necessary is the following: If you don't set the ROS_HOSTNAME variable, ROS just uses the output of the hostname command as a default. So for example if your robot PC's hostname is robot-pc, then the default is ROS_HOSTNAME='robot-pc'. This means that nodes on your desktop PC will try to connect to that hostname if they subscribe to nodes that are running there. So they essentially try this: ping robot-pc. For this to work, DNS has to be set up properly, which it often isn't. On the other hand, if you export the ROS_HOSTNAME variable as I explained above, they'll use the IP address instead of the hostname (like in ping 192.168.0.101) and that usually works.

Oh, and of course both need to point to the same ROS_MASTER_URI, but that part seems to be working for you, otherwise rostopic list wouldn't work.

The gotcha here is that rostopic list only needs to communicate with the master (so ROS_MASTER_URI has to be set up properly), but rostopic echo /map actually needs to communicate peer-to-peer with the other PC, so ROS_HOSTNAME on the other PC has to be set up properly. Basically everyone runs into this problem at some point, because everything seems to be working, and some topics even come through (depending on where the subscriber and where the publisher is running), but on some topics, the data mysteriously disappears. It's almost always the ROS_HOSTNAME.

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Thanks for our answer! Interesting, i thought that should be allready working, because i set the host-names and addresses in he /etc/hosts file an both PCs For example, i can do ssh ros-desktop and it works. Or, do i get something wrong?

lorenznew gravatar image lorenznew  ( 2018-07-23 04:39:38 -0500 )edit

You are correct. If you have added the proper IPs to the etc/hosts file, and ssh using the hostnames works, then setting ROS_HOSTNAME should not be necessary. Did you try it anyway?

Martin Günther gravatar image Martin Günther  ( 2018-07-24 14:37:55 -0500 )edit

hey, no i dont, i think that is not the problem. I did rostopic echo /tf and i could see, that the time stamp of my transform base_link -> camera_link is completly different to base_link -> odom that could bee the problem as well.

lorenznew gravatar image lorenznew  ( 2018-07-27 04:22:45 -0500 )edit

Yep, that will probably be the problem.

Martin Günther gravatar image Martin Günther  ( 2018-07-30 07:55:00 -0500 )edit

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