Hi,
I attended the IROS 2011 workshop on motion planning and went through the tutorials. I wanted to do it again myself and haven't had any problems until I tried to select commands from the top level menu on Planning Components Visualizer. I don't think I had any issues at the workshop just right-clicking "Command..." to display the menu, but it doesn't work on my work environment. I followed the tutorial instructions (http://www.kavrakilab.org/sites/default/files/iros2011_ros_ompl_tutorial.pdf). Do I need to do something else to display the menu other than launching the visualizer at the beginning of Section 6? I ran roswtf and didn't see any errors (although there was 1 warning as below):
$ roswtf
Loaded plugin tf.tfwtf
No package or stack in context
================================================================================
Static checks summary:
No errors or warnings
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Beginning tests of your ROS graph. These may take awhile...
analyzing graph...
... done analyzing graph
running graph rules...
... done running graph rules
running tf checks, this will take a second...
... tf checks complete
Online checks summary:
Found 1 warning(s).
Warnings are things that may be just fine, but are sometimes at fault
WARNING The following nodes are unexpectedly connected:
* /ompl_planning->/rosout (/rosout)
* /planning_components_visualizer->/rosout (/rosout)
* /pr2_test_right_arm_kinematics->/rosout (/rosout)
* /rviz_planning_components->/rosout (/rosout)
* /wall_clock_server->/rosout (/rosout)
* /planning_scene_validity_server->/rosout (/rosout)
* /trajectory_filter_server->/rosout (/rosout)
* /rob_st_pub->/rosout (/rosout)
* /pr2_test_left_arm_kinematics->/rosout (/rosout)
* /environment_server->/rosout (/rosout)
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.3 (x86-64) with kernel 2.6.32-34 and using ROS Electric with arm_navigation 1.0.6 and visualization 1.6.4.
Originally posted by tyama on ROS Answers with karma: 16 on 2011-10-18
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Comment by egiljones on 2011-10-18:
Try doing an rm * in the .rviz directory in your home directory. I've seen that fixed problems where interactive markers aren't working at all.
Comment by tyama on 2011-10-18:
Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I selected the "Interact" tab on Rviz, and the markers showed up. The status of "Interactive Markers" was OK. But, none of the markers weren't working.
Comment by egiljones on 2011-10-18:
That's all you should need to do. Are you sure that you've selected the "Interact" tab at the top of Rviz - none of the interactive markers will work if you don't select that tab. Are any of the other interactive markers working in the application?