MoveIt! Rviz Plugin - No interactive markers visible/available

asked 2013-03-09 07:19:02 -0500

viovio
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updated 2013-03-14 13:30:22 -0500

Hello to all,

I created a Robot-Config via MoveIt! Setup Assistant. The Robot is a simple 6 Dof Robot.

When I start it with the Rviz Moveit Plugin the interactive markers are not displayed. (After I click on "Interact"). I suspect the End-Effector is not correctly set by me.

RVIZ:

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Screenshots of the MoveIt Setup Assistant:

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I set for both plannings groups the "KDLKinematicsPlugin" as Solver on default values. I followed this tutorial for the pr2-robot.

My .launch-file:

<launch>

<include file="$(find tx60l_final3)/launch/upload_tx60l.launch"/>

<node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="odom_broadcaster" args="0 0 0 0 0 0 odom_combined base_footprint 100" />

<node name="joint_state_publisher" pkg="joint_state_publisher" type="joint_state_publisher">
 <param name="/use_gui" value="false"/>
</node>

<node name="robot_state_publisher" pkg="robot_state_publisher" type="robot_state_publisher" respawn="true" output="screen"/>

  <include file="$(find tx60l_final3)/launch/move_group.launch">
    <arg name="allow_trajectory_execution" value="false"/>
  </include>

<include file="$(find tx60l_final3)/launch/moveit_rviz.launch"/>

</launch>

Edit (no gazebo-part in urdf): See here the Terminal-Output.

Info: Removing and adding "MotionPlanning" inside Rviz didn't help.

Edit (working Links): Here you can download my robot-description. Here you can download my urdf-folder.

Update: If I set the "fixed_frame" to a link of the robot itself, interactive markers for joint a4 show up. (See picture below) But I need interactive markers in joint5. If I let "fixed_frame" set on "base_footprint" or "odom_combined" (as it should be, I think) and "plan and execute" for a random query MoveIt! crashes (output)

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Update: Now the interactive markers work correctly. Many Thanks to all supporters.

viovio

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Please mark an answer as correct, so the question is flagged as "answered". Glad it's working for you! Consider looking into http://ros.org/wiki/Industrial, which has several tutorials and templates for controlling your industrial robot through ROS. We'd love to add support for Staubli to ROS-I !

Jeremy Zoss ( 2013-03-14 16:54:09 -0500 )edit

did you tried to connect that to real robot or the simulator ?

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answered 2013-03-14 05:28:17 -0500

Jeremy Zoss

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updated 2013-03-14 07:27:17 -0500

To me, it looks like the issue is that your joint_state_publisher is crashing due to a malformed robot URDF. See the following snippet from your error log:

xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: unbound prefix: line 3, column 4
[joint_state_publisher-3] process has died

I was able to reproduce the error using the tx60l.urdf supplied in your links. The issue here is with the <gazebo> section in your URDF. The joint_state_publisher uses a python minidom XML parser, which is more picky about XML syntax than the TinyXML C++ parser used in much of the rest of ROS (including the check_urdf test you ran earlier). Even though the TinyXML parser can handle your URDF, the minidom parser requires a little bit more help...

To fix the error, you have two options:

remove the <gazebo> section from your URDF
or update the URDF to a "more correct" format:
1. move the <gazebo> section inside the <robot> section
2. add xmlns qualifiers to the robot tag as shown:

<robot name="TX60L">
       xmlns:controller="http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/xmlschema/#controller"
       xmlns:interface="http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/xmlschema/#interface">
  <gazebo>
    ...
  </gazebo>
  <link name="base_link">
    ...
</robot>

Using these changes, I was able to get the joint_state_publisher to run without errors. I expect this will also fix the issue you were having with missing interactive markers.

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Thx for your answer. I updated the links, so it must work now. My urdf file seems to be fine according to check_urdf.

viovio ( 2013-03-14 06:12:49 -0500 )edit

In the meantime I also noticed this. I removed it and the joint_state_publisher starts correctly. But this doesn't solve the problem. But I noticed something interesting: When setting the fixed_frame from odom_combined to a link of the robot itself, interactive markers appear for the a4-link!

viovio ( 2013-03-14 08:03:28 -0500 )edit

I think you are seeing the correct behavior. What are you expecting to see? For a fixed robot, you shouldn't need to define odom_combined. It is appropriate to set the fixed_frame in rviz to base_link of your robot.

Jeremy Zoss ( 2013-03-14 09:25:25 -0500 )edit

Similarly, at4 is the last link in your robot_arm group. That's where the markers should be shown. If you prefer to include the at5 link, then you need to add it to your robot_arm group. This may require you to use a dummy (fixed) joint for the EE group, if you don't have a true gripper.

Jeremy Zoss ( 2013-03-14 09:36:38 -0500 )edit

Thx. I followed your comment and the interactive markers are now on their right spot.

viovio ( 2013-03-14 11:24:43 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-02-16 13:48:36 -0500

dhood
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If anyone else comes across this issue, you can get more debug info with the following steps:

In the Displays panel of RViz, click Add > By topic > select InteractiveMarkers under /rviz_moveit_motion_planning_display
In my case I see the error "Error getting time of latest transform between /world and world: (error code: 1)" for this interactive marker in the Displays panel.

This helped me debug that my issue is related to the robot being in a namespace. (A quick fix in this case is to manually publish the transform with "rosrun tf static_transform_publisher 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 /world /{robot_namespace}/world 10")

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Your error is similar to mine, but when I try your fix it doesn't work for me. Could it be a problem simply with having slashes?

oldham ( 2017-07-26 09:41:56 -0500 )edit

what's the error that you see? the frames with/without a slash in the error message that I mentioned have significantly different meaning: '/world' is a global frame and 'world' is a local frame. Probably whatever was publishing it as a local frame (I forget what) should have been doing it as global

dhood ( 2017-07-26 12:38:20 -0500 )edit

Ah okay! I was revising a different deprecated MoveIt! tutorial but I found the issue once the global/local difference was made clear. Thanks for your help.

oldham ( 2017-07-26 13:44:42 -0500 )edit

glad to hear that helped

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answered 2013-03-09 08:25:25 -0500

fergs

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Have you tried disabling and then re-enabling the MoveIt plugin? I've noticed in the past that if RVIZ starts before MoveIt is really up and running, the markers don't work.

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Not yet, how can I do that?

viovio ( 2013-03-10 00:03:34 -0500 )edit

On each plugin there is a checkbox next to it to enable/disable it.

fergs ( 2013-03-10 00:27:16 -0500 )edit

Unfortunately it does not work. I guess you mean the checkbox next to MotionPlanning in Panel "Displays".

viovio ( 2013-03-10 01:28:38 -0500 )edit

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I confirm that disabling/enabling the MotionPlanning panel does fix the issue for me.

severin ( 2013-03-13 03:43:51 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-09-04 04:08:10 -0500

Kamil Kotek
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updated 2013-09-04 04:13:14 -0500

I have same problem, but nothing help me. After launching demo.launch it writes one error: "[ INFO] [1378302606.416030588]: No root joint specified. Assuming fixed joint process[mongo_wrapper_ros_romesy_desktop_2173_3455346243933734730-4]: started with pid [2228]"

"[ INFO] [1378302606.461072650]: rviz version 1.9.32"

"[ INFO] [1378302606.461179802]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.4 (Cthugha)"

"[ INFO] [1378302606.653216609]: OpenGl version: 2.1 (GLSL 1.2)."

[ERROR] [WallTime: 1378302606.779255] Execution failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

"[ INFO] [1378302606.887842389]: Publishing maintained planning scene on 'monitored_planning_scene'"

Rviz starts, everythings works, but i can't see and use interactive markers and also have problem with connecting to Warehouse.

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Is the move_group node getting started? Does the planning library show in red no planning library loaded?

cdrwolfe ( 2013-09-04 08:46:50 -0500 )edit

move_group is running (visible in rqt_graph) and libary is loaded(green OMPL)

Kamil Kotek ( 2013-09-05 21:01:54 -0500 )edit

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