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Try this: Add an import for launch_ros.descriptions to your launch file: import launch_ros.descriptions Then wrap y

Try this: Add an import for launch_ros.descriptions to your launch file: import launch_ros.descriptions Then wrap y

Is your end goal to use xacro for your robot_state_publisher at runtime? Xacro actually has a function (load_yaml()) tha

Is your end goal to use xacro for your robot_state_publisher at runtime? Xacro actually has a function (load_yaml()) tha

Indeed the parser sees that colon and gets greedy. Pretty much the exact issue that drove me to the solution in the answ

For the if/when question, the short answer is I don't know. I was kinda hoping the original author might get to it. Unfo

The error is decently descriptive of the problem. The generated URDF has the link world_interface defined twice with the

Long answer short, yes it supports conditionals but you have to use the dedicated conditional functionality and not plai

FWIW, I think the ROS2 launch system is in a decent place and I have started porting a lot to it. I think it mostly suff

Do you have a source for the comment about launch conditions being deprecated? I do not see any deprecation warnings whe

See this question. Xacro in ROS2 does not seem to support the package tag. Try using <mesh filename="file://$(robot_d

You have roughly a 100 meters of straight lines for your first 14 points. I think this is what you are seeing. Try zoomi

You have roughly a 100 meters of straight lines for your first 14 points. I think this is what you are seeing. Try zoomi

What are you using to visualize the points? If it is RVIZ, then you need your coordinates to be in a cartesian coordinat

EDIT: After playing a bit with the git repo, I am pretty sure you just need to change the Robot Description topic source

A couple of quick things I noticed: You should not have inertial components on your base link. Instead make a dummy bas

You should only have build and devel from catkin_make or catkin build in your workspace root. If the build folder in you

Did you previously build the node with the explore_node name (ie add_executable(explore_node src/main.cpp))? If so it st

Can you compare against what I put in my answer below? Make sure social_layers has all the same catkin_package definitio

Compiling the comments into an answer: Package: new_policies_system CMakeLists.txt should include: find_package(catki

I would still try clearing your folders and updating catkin_tools. Switching to catkin_make would be to confirm the issu

Great! That is what we were looking for. I think you are passed the initial linking problem. For reference, you could ha

Are you building a person library or adding it to an existing library target in social_layers? If so, is its library nam

Can you post your cmakelists.txt?

Its tough to see with the formatting issues (hint: indent all your code blocks by 4 spaces and then copy into the questi

I believe the issue is my_broadcaster1 is publishing a transform from world->odom while there is also a map->odom

I believe the issue is my_broadcaster1 is publishing a transform from world->odom while there is also a map->odom

Have you sourced your ROS install and the workspace where the baxter_description package is? Are you keeping the backtic

Have you sourced your ROS install and the workspace where the baxter_description package is? Are you keeping the backtic

Chances are your serial device is not named /dev/sbg Try: Unplugging your usb->serial converter. Run ls /dev in

Chances are your serial device is not named /dev/sbg Try: Unplugging your usb->serial converter. Run ls /dev in

Inertia is mainly important in simulation. If you are just using a URDF for visualization in RVIZ then it really doesn't

Inertia is mainly important in simulation. If you are just using a URDF for visualization in RVIZ then it really doesn't

I'll give answering this a try: The long story short is StringConstPtr is just a shortcut to String::ConstPtr and can