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Difficulty getting hector quadrotor actions to work

Hello, I've been working with the hector_quadrotor package on ROS Melodic with Ubuntu 18.04 and I wanted to write a node that would move multiple drones from point to point simultaneously. I saw that ...
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urdl and xacro files

Hello everyone I have both quadrotor_base.urdf and quadrotor_base.urdf.xacro files in my directory. If I make any change in quadrotor_base.urdf.xacro file and save it, would it be enough? does the ...
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What are the dimensions of the generic quadrotor in the hector quadrotor package?

Hello, The description page (http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor_description) talks about quadrotor_hokuyo_utm30lx.urdf.xacro providing the description but I am a little bit confused reading the file,...
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hector_quadrotor_demo process dies

Hi, so I'll make this as specific as possible, beginning with how created my workspace in kinetic. I tried several methods, because i was asked to preferably use "catkin build" instead of ...
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Error on calling a rosservice

Im trying to enable hector_quadrotor motors' on throught code: ...
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Calling a third party service on a client

I'm trying to write a service client in python to enable_motors of hector_quadrotor. I would like to turn on engine on my code ...
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Drone Simulation using GMapping and Realsense R200

Hi, I'd like to simulate the RTF Drone from Intel which has the R200 Camera as the main sensor. I'd like to use it for mapping simulations with GMapping. I want to build a launch file to load world, ...
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hector quadrotor - amcl navigation

Hi all! I would like to implement the 2d navigation (fixed altitude) of amcl (like turtlebot3, that I used a lot) on a simulated quadrotor in Gazebo. The map is known (already built). How can I send ...
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Error on launching hector_gazebo demo

I'm trying to launch hector_quadrotor demo on ros kinetic and I'm using gazebo 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 on a VM. I followed these ...
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How to remove and respawn robot

Hi everyone I am a new user of ROS with Gazebo 5. I am wondering how to remove and respawn hector quadrotors during the simulation. More specifically, robots should be removed or respawned when ...
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import hector quadrotor in a different gazebo environment

Hii, I want to import hector quadrotor in a different gazebo environment. My question is how can this be done? Also, what should be the format of the environment's CAD model. Else, are there different ...
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hector_quadrotor does not take off

Hi, I am using ROS kinetic and since the tutorials on http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor/Tutorials/Quadrotor%20outdoor%20flight%20demo is a littile bit out-dated, I followed the answer in http://...
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Quadrotor navigation in gazebo

I am a beginner user of gazebo, and am confused how to navigate my quadrotor. I have used hector_quadrotor package. I tried using ...
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add hokuyu laser to quadrotor

is there a different way to do so,or is it similar to that mentioned here: http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutorials/hydro/Adding%20a%20Hokuyo%20laser%20to%20your%20Turtlebot Originally posted by ...
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Any quadrotor simulation package in ROS Kinetic?

Hi, I've been workiing with quadrotor simulation in gazebo and ROS indigo utilizing hector_quadrotor package. Now I have changed my ROS to kinetic and Ubuntu to 16.04. However, hector_quadrotor can ...
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Is it possible to run the hector_quadrotor demos in kinetic?

I installed the kinetic following the Debian instructions. I found the hector_quadrotor indoor slam tutorial here: http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor/Tutorials/Quadrotor%20indoor%20SLAM%20demo I ...
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Fail to make hector_gazebo_thermal_camera

Recently I am building hector_quadrotor(http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor) package. It needs another package named hector_gazebo_thermal_camera(inside http://wiki.ros.org/hector_gazebo). Using ...
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indigo source installation problems:

i first had installed ros indigo using apt,then after uninstalling i installed ros from source,now i am facing so many problems.. whenever i use rosdep for installing dependencies it gets installed ...
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How to subscribe to a topic, while publishing to another

Hey guys, I want to write a basic controller for a quadrotor. For a target_position it should take the current_position from a simulated quadrotor, calculate an error between the two and send the ...
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octomap, slam, path planning: how does it all fit together?

My goal is to simulate the flight of a UAV in an outdoor environment. My preliminary steps are to see what ROS packages exist which I can reuse, and determine what I need to write myself. I've looked ...
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hector quadrotor motor pwm

I am using hector quadrotor model inorder to simulate a neural network. The idea is simulate a neural network created in the paper http://flyingmachinearena.org/wp-content/publications/2010/...
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Local quadrotor planner

Hi, I am currently working on simulations of UAVs (for now I assume those UAVs are all quadrotors). I am using hector_quadrotor so I have basically working quadrotor which is listening on cmd_vel ...
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joystick continuous cmd_vel

Dear friends, I'm using hector_quadrotor simulation in ROS hydro with gazebo. I can successfully use an xbox joystick to move as it is described in the tutorials. In order to move it in x of y ...
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add_message_files() directory not found in hector messages

Hi I was trying to build custom message in hector_quadrotor package. For some reason, I cannot catkin_make the packages. Modified packages are all removed and it still cannot solve errors. Enter ...
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parameter_descriptions and parameter_updates topics

Dear friends, I experiment with hector quadrotor simulation in Hydro. Most of the topics like the one for sonar of the altimeter includes additional topics like /sonar_height/parameter_descriptions ...
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converting one topic to another (front_cam/camera/image to sensor_msgs/image)

Hello, I am thinking of incorporating visual odometry onto hector-quadrotor which currently uses LIDAR. There is a front cam functionality ( topics like: ...
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hector quadrotor catkin_make error

Hi I was trying to build "hector_quadrotor_tutorial" by "catkin_make". Under worksapce directory, I enterned catkin_make it shows ...
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Hector_quadrotor catkin_make fails compiling

Hi all, I am attempting to install hector_quadrotor_tutorial from source on ubuntu 14.10, ROS indigo. And I am experiencing the following problems: 1st I had to install hardware_interface package ...
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build hector_quadrotor in fedora 18

hello ROS es .. I want to build an run hector_quadrotor stack and its [slam indoor demo] (http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor/Tutorials/Quadrotor%20indoor%20SLAM%20demo) in Fedora .. I know that ros ...
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multiple hector_quadrotor flying simultaneously

I am using hector_quadrotor package but I need to control multiple uavs at the same time. Could someone help me on solving this issue? I can control if only one uav is used, but not many of them ...
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Adding two robots in gazebo tfs problem and urdf files

I want to add two robots in gazebo. The first robot is a quadrotor from hector package the second robot is husky I used apt-get to download both of then except the husky_description. I used git clone &...
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Problem when compiling hector_quadrotor

I used the source code method to build the "Quadrotor outdoor flight demo" as the ros-hydro-hector-quadrotor-demo cannot be located. However, I cannot proceed with installation as I always ...
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Segmentation fault in publishing array message

Hi I'm trying to publish polygonal position as message. The publisher is make correct but "segmentation error" shows when I rosrun the publisher, saying "Segmentation fault (core dumped)...
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Set node parameter in launch file

Hi I was trying to run a node through launch file and set its node parameter. The correspond launch file code: ...
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'hector_quadrotor' 'TypeError: 'instancemethod' object has no attribute '__geitem__''

Hi I was running "hector_quadrotor_demo outdoor_flight_gazebo.launch". And I build a publisher "auto_fly", to publish message to control the quadrotor. The code is showed below: #!...
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Package installation error

Hi, I just followed the instructions (Installation Instructions for Hydro in OSX) and successfully (with some tweaks) installed desktop_full. However, I got the following error when I added the ...
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Read hector quadrotor position and control its yaw angles

Hi I am running hector quadrotor demo with two spawn quadrotors and get two questions: How to read quadrotor's position? I asked it to show topics "/uav/uav1/fix" and it was supposed to ...
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Uncontrollable quadrotor_with_asus in Gazebo - hector_quadrotor

Hi there, I'm trying to get a simulation working with hector_quadrotor, which urdf model is the on with only an Asus Xtion camera. I adapted the pr2_teleop code so to have a altitude control of the ...
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Hector_quadrotor doesn't respond to "rostopic pub" command

Hi Everyone, I installed the hector_quadrotor package from source then I ran "roslaunch hector_quadrotor_demo indoor_slam_gazebo" Finally, I tried to input command velocity using the "...
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Tf has two or more unconnected trees

Hi, I am new to ROS and I am trying to run the indoor example of the hector_quadrotor packadge. I followed the instructions ,ran the launch file (indoor_slam_gazebo.launch) and rviz and gazebo windows ...
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What does qnh attribute stands for in hector_uav_msgs/Altimeter?

Hello, I am trying to use hector_uav_msgs/Altimeter for barometer sensor data publishing, but I cant figure out what does qnh ...
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Hector pose estimation works, but only orientation and altitude is estimated

Hello, I am trying to use hector_pose_estimation package for a real quadcopter. I have published information from IMU, barometer using sensor_msgs/Imu, ...
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Recommended quadrotor for using hector_slam package

Hi, Which would be the recommended quadrotor for using hector_slam. I am currently trying the nicely documented tutorial : hector_quadrotor ( link ) . I was wondering on which all quadrotor everyone ...
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Roslaunch cannot launch node of type: gazebo

Hi All, Currently I am trying to insert hector quadrotor model in gazebo 1.9. When I use rosrun to spawn robot model: ...
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error with hector quadrotor tutorial

Hi guys! I've followed the ROS tutorial: "Quadrotor indoor SLAM demo", step by step, (I think) and at the end, when I write the last command,(roslaunch hector_quadrotor_demo ...
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Integrating Hector Quadrotor Gazebo Simulation with RGB-D SLAM

Hi there, I'm trying to integrate RGB-D SLAM with the Hector Quadrotor model simulation on Gazebo. The idea is to launch the model of the quadrotor with a kinect and use the visual data recovered by ...
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hector_quadrotor color settings for laserscan

Hi, I am trying to reproduce the same color behaviour from the "hector_quadrotor outdoor scenario demo" youtube clip. In this clip in the top down view from rviz the hector team gets a nice ...
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catkin optional build dependency

I'm trying to compile hector_quadrotor using catkin_make, but I'm running into this issue : http://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_quadrotor/issues/3 The main problem is that ...
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Isn't the hector_quadrotor stack catkinized?

Although the stack (and all the packages) seems to be catkinized I am unable to install the packages. Whenever I run the catkin_make command (after arranging the folder structure for catkin) the devel ...
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hector_quadrotor: how does quadrotor_simple_controller runs?

Hi Everyone: In the link http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor_controller?distro=fuerte, it says Simple Quadrotor Controller plugin implements the controller of the quadrotor. But I do not understand ...
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