Reading bumper state from PR2
System: Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-27, 64 bit.
ROS: Latest diamondback from the repositories.
I'm following the PR2 tutorial here:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_simulator/Tutorials/BasicPR2Controls
Everything works fine, I'm mostly interested in the gripper and I can open and close it using rostopic.
What I can't do is read the state of the bumper:
when I execute rostopic echo l_gripper_l_finger_bumper/state
I get the following error message:
WARNING: no messages received and simulated time is active.
Is /clock being published?
Executing rostopic echo /clock indicates that the clock is indeed being published.
Has anyone else gotten the bumper plugin to work? Any hints/tips?
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I can't find any reference to "bumper" on that page what makes you think that topic is being publshed?
tfoote
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2011-03-10 13:01:39 -0500
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I thought that since it is defined in the relevant .urdf.xarco and since the topic appears, it would be. But I see that I'm wrong. How can I enable the topic?
erikjber
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2011-03-14 22:33:27 -0500
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