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MoveIt tutorial: .yaml sensor file

asked 2013-05-20 09:39:41 -0500

t.pimentel gravatar image

updated 2014-01-28 17:16:34 -0500

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Good afternoon,

I'm trying to run the QuickStart tutorial for MoveIt! and I'm not being able to see any of the measurements from the sensors in Gazebo in the RViz.
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how the .yaml file sensors_rgbd.yaml works to get the sensor data from Gazebo to MoveIt! I've already checked and the /head_mount_kinect/depth_registered/points topic is being published correctly from Gazebo, but there are no subscribers for it.

Thank you in advance,
Tiago

--------- Edit ------------------

So, I think I figured out a part of this. What I think is that I'm getting caught in this part of the code:

if (!sensor_list[i].hasMember ("sensor_plugin"))
{
    ROS_ERROR("No sensor plugin specified for octomap updater %d; ignoring.", i);
    continue;
}

Because in sensors_rgbd.yaml there is no sensor_plugin field. So, does anyone have an idea of what value should I give to it?

Thanks again,
Tiago Pimentel

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answered 2013-05-21 09:14:39 -0500

t.pimentel gravatar image

I found the answer to this problem already.

In the sensors_rgbd.yaml file, there's one important item missing that allows the sensor data to be transformed by move_group to be used in RViz. You have to add the line:

sensor_plugin: occupancy_map_monitor/PointCloudOctomapUpdater

inside the sensor information, I put it right after:

point_cloud_topic: /head_mount_kinect/depth_registered/points

so far as I understood, this tells move_group which plugin it should use to transform/understand the data from the sensor.

I hope this helps anyone that has the same problem I had!

Have a great day,
Tiago Pimentel

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