static_transform_publisher broadcast wrong transfomation [closed]

asked 2021-06-04 11:48:05 -0500

bach
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updated 2021-06-04 11:49:29 -0500

Hi,

what is happening is really insane to me. I have set up two static broadcaster in my launch file:

<node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="my_broadcaster1" args="11.0 11.0 0 0 0 0 1 world odom 30" />

<node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="my_broadcaster2" args="10.0 10.0 0 0 0 0 1 world room 30" />

But my_broadcaster1 broadcast a transform between map and odom in place of world and odom. This is the tf_tree:

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I really don't understand. If I don't launch the navigation stack, all works fine.

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answered 2021-06-04 12:11:34 -0500

djchopp
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updated 2021-06-04 12:28:20 -0500

I believe the issue is my_broadcaster1 is publishing a transform from world->odom while there is also a map->odom transform. That means odom would have 2 parent frames. See this question.

Essentially you cannot have multiple parent transforms for a link. The usual solution is to invert one of the transforms. In this case try switching my_broadcaster1 to publish odom->world instead of world->odom.

EDIT: Sorry, just looked a bit closer. Did you previously have my_broadcaster1 publishing a map->odom transform? If so, this may be a remnant of the old broadcaster. This can happen if you leave a roscore running in between launch changes. Try killing all ros related processes and relaunch. Another issue could be that you have another my_broadcaster1 in your launchfile. There should some error output in the terminal if this is the issue. You can try adding a required="true" tag to that node so the launchfile exits on a failure of this node.

Hope this helps!

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I think you hit the point: there was a problem with multiple parents. I delete the map server which broadcast map->odom transform and now it seems ok. Thank you!

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