Running RViz on a different machine gives no TF

asked 2019-01-08 07:29:00 -0500

stevemartin gravatar image

Hi,

I am runing ROS on my Embedded machine and for some reason, I am not able to open RViz due to Qt problems. Anyway, I decided to take a loot at my tf on my embedded machine just to make sure that everything is correct and here what does it look like: image description

Except that the terminal gives me this error:

Error:   TF_DENORMALIZED_QUATERNION: Ignoring transform for child_frame_id "base_footprint" from authority "unknown_publisher" because of an invalid quaternion in the transform (0.000000 0.000000 -0.000000 -0.000000)

As I need RViz to do the mapping, I have decided to use my PC. I simply stated the ROS_MASTER_URI to the IP address + port of my embedded machine and run:

rosrun rviz rviz

After rviz launches, I do not see any frames! It says no tf received. I even checked rostopic list on my PC and it gave me all running topics.

What is going on?

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Have to checked the clock synchronisation of the two computers? If the time is significantly different this may cause this type of problem.

PeteBlackerThe3rd gravatar image PeteBlackerThe3rd  ( 2019-01-08 09:32:35 -0500 )edit

Just making sure: are both machines running the same version of ROS?

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2019-01-08 10:05:21 -0500 )edit
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This sounds like a general network connectivity issue please check out the links below and edit your post with more details from them: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/Mul...http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutoria...http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/NetworkSetup

tfoote gravatar image tfoote  ( 2019-01-08 18:28:02 -0500 )edit