Can we merge $PATH and $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH???

asked 2013-03-26 05:18:56 -0500

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Hi,

I want to know if it is possible to add stuff in the $PATH variable to $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH? Actually i want to do this because i have already installed some debian packages on Ubuntu (11.1) which were required by the OpenHaptics toolkit (ver 3.0) but ROS can't find them. If i run the OpenHaptics example directly, it works. But when i try to run some OpenHaptics code through ROS, it doesn't.

Any help will be appreciated greatly.

Thanks.

Following are some additional details:

$ echo $PATH /opt/ros/electric/ros/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

and

$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH /home/tufail/electric_workspace/sandbox/phantom:/opt/ros/electric/stacks

The following Debian packages have already been installed but ROS can't find them:

freeglut3-dev
libdrm-dev
libexpat1-dev
libglw1-mesa
libmotif-dev
libncurses5-dev
libx11-dev
libxt-dev    
tcsh
x11proto-dri2-dev
x11proto-gl-dev
x11proto-print-dev

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Hello, can you update your question to address the following? How are you running the code "through ROS"? What error messages are you getting?

SL Remy ( 2013-03-26 05:30:34 -0500 )edit

Can you clarify how ROS can't find the installed packages? Is there a specific compile error you're seeing, or does it only have trouble at runtime?

ahendrix ( 2013-03-26 07:08:12 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-03-26 07:54:54 -0500

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Hello, thanks for your replies.

Actually i want to use the phantom_omni ROS package.

But when i want to rosmake or rosdep check the package, ROS says that it can't find the dependencies. But i remember i have installed all these packages one by one through Ubuntu Software Centre. Following is the output with me:

tufail@tufail-desktop:~/electric_workspace$ rosdep check phantom_omni
Failed to find rosdep libxt-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-print-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libdrm-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep freeglut3-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-gl-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libx11-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-dri2-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep tcsh for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libncurses5-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libmotif-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libexpat1-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libglw1-mesa for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
error in processing scripts ABORTING: Rosdeps [u'libxt-dev', u'x11proto-print-dev',
u'libdrm-dev', u'freeglut3-dev', u'x11proto-gl-dev', u'libx11-dev', u'x11proto
dri2-dev', u'tcsh', u'libncurses5-dev', u'libmotif-dev', u'libexpat1-dev', u'libglw1
mesa'] could not be resolved
Failed to find rosdep libxt-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-print-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libdrm-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep freeglut3-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-gl-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libx11-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep x11proto-dri2-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep tcsh for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libncurses5-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libmotif-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libexpat1-dev for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
Failed to find rosdep libglw1-mesa for package phantom_omni on OS:ubuntu version:oneiric
The following rosdeps were not installed [u'libxt-dev', u'x11proto-print-dev', u'libdrm-dev', u'freeglut3-dev', u'x11proto-gl-dev', u'libx11-dev', u'x11proto-dri2-dev', u'tcsh', u'libncurses5-dev', u'libmotif-dev', u'libexpat1-dev', u'libglw1-mesa']

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I am sorry the ROS output is not properly formatted. Its just messed up. I don't know how to make it appear more readable. I am new to ROS ;(

tufail ( 2013-03-26 07:57:10 -0500 )edit

Unfortunately the developers of phantom_omni made it a bit complicated to use. Basically if all the drivers for PHANToM are installed and working properly you can remove all these system dependencies from the package.

Boris ( 2013-03-26 18:29:33 -0500 )edit

Also, what features do you need? I made a fork of phantom_omni some time ago, but removed some functionality, i.e. 'manual' kinematics calculation as it was wrong and replaced it with the kinematics from the driver. So if you want to give it a try I can upload it to GitHub or similar.

Boris ( 2013-03-26 18:36:11 -0500 )edit

Hi Boris,

I want use the Phantom Omni device for teleoperation. I want to try the pr2_omni_teleop package where the Cartesian position and velocity from Omni device is published to the PR2 robot and in return the force is fed back to it.

tufail ( 2013-03-26 22:10:40 -0500 )edit

and yes you are right, doing the 'manual' kinematics calculation doesn't make any sense. I don't know why the transform from base to tool frame is calculated when you can easily get it through the OpenHaptics function call hdGetDoublev(HD_CURRENT_TRANSFORM, ... ). Similarly for the linear velocity.

tufail ( 2013-03-26 22:17:15 -0500 )edit

I will try to improve the code as much as i can. I will welcome if you can share your code through GitHub.

Currently I am getting some errors while playing with the pr2_omni_teleop package. I will post another question about it if i get seriously stuck.

Thanks.

tufail ( 2013-03-26 22:20:25 -0500 )edit

I am working on a similar setup, but going to generalize the package to make it work with other Phantoms, e.g. 6-DoF one. Regarding the velocity I believe there was a bug and driver always returns zeros. So position still has to be differentiated to calculate velocity.

Boris ( 2013-03-26 22:26:49 -0500 )edit

I have already tried the same code with Phantom Premium 6-DoF. It works and nothing needs to be changed except the device name. But yes the code has much room for improvement. Any success on pr2_omni_teleop?

tufail ( 2013-03-26 22:37:22 -0500 )edit

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