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2019-12-19 12:35:36 -0500 commented answer IDEs QT Creator - Desktop Entry Troubles

I'm having this exact same problem with the QtCreator launcher. Have you found a better workaround or a true solution?

2019-05-20 01:10:01 -0500 marked best answer Delete all RViz markers in a specific namespace

Is there a way to delete all of the markers in a specific namespace without iterating through all ids that have been used in that namespace and deleting them individually? It seems that the DELETEALL action actually deletes everything in all namespaces, not just the given namespace.

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2017-06-09 00:16:20 -0500 commented answer simplest multiple-robot scenario

I don't know a whole lot about the differences between TF and TF2, but using TF prefixes instead of XACRO prefixs may ca

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2017-06-08 12:42:14 -0500 commented answer Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

I'm not aware of any way to do that via roslaunch, but there could be one. If you have direct access to the code for the

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2017-06-08 10:59:40 -0500 commented question ROS kinetic on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install error

I should add that the first step would be to reboot the computer; your very first error message indicates a file is in u

2017-06-08 10:57:30 -0500 commented question ROS kinetic on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install error

Sounds like dpkg is having issues independent of ROS, I would try the steps listed here https://stackoverflow.com/questi

2017-06-08 10:50:57 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

I would suggest looking at http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Using%20Xacro%20to%20Clean%20Up%20a%20URDF%20File for how

2017-06-08 10:50:31 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

I would suggest looking at http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials/Using%20Xacro%20to%20Clean%20Up%20a%20URDF%20File for how

2017-06-08 10:50:07 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

I would recommend against using namespaces to resolve this sort of problem, nothing in TF is designed to be namespaced.

2017-06-08 10:39:48 -0500 commented answer Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

A couple of straightforward possibilities come to mind: The program has installed its own SIGINT handler instead of us

2017-06-08 10:39:16 -0500 commented answer Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

A couple of possibilities come to mind: The program has installed its own SIGINT handler instead of using the one setu

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2017-06-07 19:55:57 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

I should add that with your specific example, I would look at the name of the "root" of the 2 robots, and see if they ha

2017-06-07 19:51:41 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

Are the link names (and thus tf frame ids) different between your 2 robots? If you had 2 identical robots and did not se

2017-06-07 19:51:29 -0500 commented question simplest multiple-robot scenario

Are the link names (and thus tf frame ids) different between your 2 robots? If you had 2 identical robots and did not se

2017-06-07 14:12:04 -0500 commented answer Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

You could also potentially emulate this by sending SIGINT to all relevant processes. The difference here is that sending

2017-06-07 13:58:38 -0500 edited answer Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

My solution is to use a launch file to start all the relevant nodes, with the "terminator" node set to required="true".

2017-06-07 13:58:01 -0500 answered a question Proper way to shutdown /rosout (roscore).

My solution is to use a launch file to start all the relevant nodes, with the "terminator" node set to required="true".

2017-06-07 13:53:52 -0500 commented answer Is it possible to use relative path for mesh filename in URDF?

You could probably include a parameter to you xacro file called "pacakge_name" or something like that which can then be

2017-06-01 18:17:59 -0500 asked a question Delete all RViz markers in a specific namespace

Delete all RViz markers in a specific namespace Is there a way to delete all of the markers in a specific namespace with