no local costmap for nav2 on humble (but works in foxy)
Hi ROS 2 community,
over the last weeks I tried to get nav2 running with humble (real hardware and in simulation), but it looks like the local costmap is just not working while it was fine in foxy.
I created docker-container for quick testing for both, for foxy and humble
Does anybody have an idea how to get a local costmap for autonomous navigation in ROS 2 humble?
There are no errors or tracebacks in the logs, humble seems a bit more verbose with its infos but it looks fine.
According to this issue its a problem with FastDDS, but switching to cyclondds does not solve the issue (see my docker setup here and here ), same for installing the current versions of ROS humble as suggested here (see docker setup here and here). I also tried to compile the humble-branch of navigation2 from source.
Interestingly even in the gif from the official documentation the local costmap is not shown:
while it is shown in foxy:
You've checked the topic to make sure it's really not being published?
Thank you very much for your comment!
There is data on
/local_costmap/costmap, that gets received on the "remote-pc" (where the nav-stack with rviz2 is running) but rviz2 does not show the local costmap on humble, only in foxy I see the costmap! I also have the warning message in rviz2 that no data has been received on the topic whileros2 echo topic /local_costmap/costmapprints data.There is no data on
/local_costmap/costmap_updatesbut I think that is not used anyway (also on both foxy and humble).rviz2 shows the local plan (
/local_plan) and Obstacle avoidance and replanning on dynamically appearing obstacles seems to work fine.I also see that the frame header in humble have a timestamp while the ones in foxy don't!
Have you read about QoS and the many poeple, myself included, that can't get maps to show up on RIVIZ2 becuase of QoS setting?
Yes, I read about QoS. In Rviz2 itself I can set some QoS-settings to the topic, I tried moving from "Reliable" to "Best Effort" and "Transient local" to "Volatile" but I still did not get any data. I tried both FastDDS and Cyclon.
It also looks like the timestamps do not match. while tf-frames have a stamp that is local to the starttime of the simulation:
transforms: - header: stamp: sec: 247 nanosec: 403000000 frame_id: base_linkwhile messages on/local_costmap/costmaphave timestamp from the local clock:header: stamp: sec: 1674736954 nanosec: 492295014 frame_id: odom(but this probably isn't an issue because global_costmap is shown although it has the same timestamp as local_costmap)
I set the map parameters in RVIZ2 all to "System Default" on the /map topic I was struggling with. That is the only thing that worked for me.
So, setting everything to "system default" and re-publishing the costmap by setting
msg.header.stamp.sec = 0 msg.header.stamp.nanosec = 0works but why? The global costmap is published with valid non-zero timestamps and is shown fine in Rviz2. I don't even know if this a rviz2, ros-nav2 or communication bug?