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robot state publisher error

asked 2013-09-20 12:59:40 -0500

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I am learning ROS tutorial (Building a Visual Robot Model with URDF from Scratch) and when I rum this command

roslaunch urdf_tutorial display.launch model:=01-myfirst.urdf

I got following result.

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ERROR: cannot launch node of type [robot_state_publisher/state_publisher]: robot_state_publisher ROS path [0]=/opt/ros/hydro/share/ros ROS path [1]=/home/wafeeq/catkin_ws/src/pr2_common ROS path [2]=/opt/ros/hydro/share ROS path [3]=/opt/ros/hydro/share ROS path [4]=/opt/ros/hydro/stacks

wafeeq gravatar image wafeeq  ( 2013-09-20 13:00:26 -0500 )edit
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I have also installed robot_state_publisher but it could not find state_publisher a node of it. ERROR: cannot launch node of type [robot_state_publisher/state_publisher]: can't locate node [state_publisher] in package [robot_state_publisher]

wafeeq gravatar image wafeeq  ( 2013-09-20 13:35:05 -0500 )edit

Can anybody help me please?

wafeeq gravatar image wafeeq  ( 2013-09-21 06:58:08 -0500 )edit

I'm trying to incorporate gazebo_ros_control plugin in my own urdf and starting by just putting a controller on a single joint. I keep getting the same error saying "cannont launch node of this type..." ros-hydro-robot-state-publisher installed. Did you find a solution to this?

cstew gravatar image cstew  ( 2014-04-28 11:27:23 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-09-21 13:44:25 -0500

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Do you have ros-hydro-robot-state-publisher installed?

If not, try

sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-robot-state-publisher
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wow great it worked. But I had also installed robot_state_publisher manually but it did not work. thanks

wafeeq gravatar image wafeeq  ( 2013-09-22 00:16:23 -0500 )edit

When I tried to run the commanded, it gave me the following error. E: Unable to locate package ros-hydro-robot-state-publisher Is there a way to fix this issue?

sujeet gravatar image sujeet  ( 2018-07-23 18:03:31 -0500 )edit
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You probably have to adapt to your version of ROS. For me, it is ros-melodic-robot-state-publisher. You should be able to find the right package name via apt-cache search robot-state-publisher.

wmbolle gravatar image wmbolle  ( 2020-04-12 16:22:27 -0500 )edit

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