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PR2: basestation network manager no longer valid

Hi, I'm trying to recover a PR2 in my research lab. It hasn't seen a lot of use in the past few years. I am having issues with the basestation regarding the network manager no longer being valid and I'...
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User defined grasp pose for pick task

Hi, I am quite satisfied with the grasp generator that MoveIt task constructor offers, but I wanted to know if and also how it would be possible to define a custom grasp pose instead of a generated ...
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Moveit task constructor and PR2 gripper sensor

Hi, I am using Moveit task constructor to build complex task for PR2 robot. I want to add gripper sensor function (accelerometer, force sensor) to allow PR2 to know when to release object (when human ...
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Odometry - 4ws quasiomnidirectional - Trigonometry - Strange behaviour

Hi, Iam trying to make odometry work on a four wheel steering quasiomnidirectional base. Its losely based on pr2 trigonometry. The Problem that I encounter is that everything works except Angular_Z ...
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Control PR2 gripper in moveit grasp pipeline

Hi, The gripper of the PR2 robot can be controlled with an action client in wich you specify the gripper openning size and the controller handles all the complicated joint control. But in the moveit ...
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Release hokuyo_node for kinetic on PR2?

Hi, the hokuyon_node page on the ROS wiki says : "Looking for a newer driver? urg_node is fully REP-138 compliant AND compatible with Ethernet/MultiEcho Hokuyos! Hokuyo_node will remain ...
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PR2 simulation keeps glitching/jumping in RVIZ when using /odom_combined as fixed frame

Hi, I'm relatively new to ROS. I'm trying to run the PR2 robot on ROS Kinect for Ubuntu 16.04. I'm using the MoveIt stack and launching the following nodes: ...
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pr2 cannot install pr2_robot

While debugging audio drivers on the pr2 robot the package pr2_robot was unintentionally uninstalled. I cannot seem to install ...
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pr2_arm_navigation_tutorials

http://wiki.ros.org/motion_planning_environment/Tutorials http://wiki.ros.org/motion_planning_environment/Tutorials/Making%20collision%20maps%20from%20self-filtered%20tilting%20laser%20data In these ...
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PR2's `robot claim` Source Code?

Is there source code out there somewhere for the PR2's mechanism for claiming a robot? I used to know where it was when I had a PR2. Originally posted by David Lu on ROS Answers with karma: 10932 on ...
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How to send raw velocity commands to joints of pr2

I want to send raw velocity commands to joints of pr2 instead of high level joint action commands. I want to apply a reinforcement learning to pr2 arm manipulation. So I need to send raw velocities to ...
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PR2 tabletop manipulation

I need to create a setup in which a PR2 robot, in Gazebo, would be picking objects from a table, manipulating them and placing them back. There is a package pr2_tabletop_manipulation that supposedly ...
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Moveit : moveit::planning_interface::MoveGroup group("right_arm")

i was going through the Moveit tutorials: moveit::planning_interface::MoveGroup group("right_arm") there was this error: ...
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no name spaces found while running gazebo what to do?

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I tried to install PR2 simulation on Indigo but i get the command like this --- E: Unable to locate package ros-indigo-pr2-desktop

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PR2 navigation: Obstacles not being added to local costmap in Hydro/Indigo

The pr2_navigation package does not update the local costmap and the PR2 collides with obstacles that are not part of the map. This happens in simulation and on the real PR2, both in ROS Hydro and ...
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Where can i find the actor model for ROS Indigo and Gazebo2.2 version?

I want use face_detector package. To use this package in simulation, i need to create the faces or actors in the gazebo simulator. Can anyone please help where can i find the actor models for ROS ...
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E: Unable to locate package ros-electric-pr2-arm-navigation

I am trying to proceed with this tutorial but when I run sudo apt-get install ros-electric-pr2-arm-navigation I get the following error: ...
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catkin tools command not found

Hello, I installed catkin tools (http://catkin-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html) in one of the users for a PR2 (locally installed with --user) by following the instructions in http://...
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Where to write code for pr2 robot simulator?

So at this link: http://wiki.ros.org/robot_script , commands for making the pr2 robot simulator perform certain actions are given. Where would I write this code and how would I run it so that the pr2 ...
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what to do on the PR2 robot simulation?

So I ran the line roslaunch gazebo_ros empty_world.launch So now I have an empty world and spawned a pr2 robot. How would I go about making the robot do something? For example waving? Do I just type ...
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PR2 simulation not working ROS Hydro

So I ran: roslaunch gazebo_ros empty_world.launch to start Gazebo in an empty world. The gazebo window pops up but the terminal stops at this: gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, ...
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How to turn off motors for selected arm joints on PR2?

I'd like to only turn off some of the arm motors. I basically want to mimic the effect of turning of the arm controllers for the PR2, except I still want to control the wrist flex and roll. Is there a ...
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Allowed range for each joint

How can I figure out the accessible range of joint positions for each joint on my PR2? I became confused while going through the tutorial for moving the torso. The tutorial says in one place that the ...
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Problem with pr2_2dnav tutorial

Hello, i'm trying to follow the pr2_2dnav tutorial but I found that when I execute the command roslaunch pr2_2dnav pr2_2dnav.launch it says: ...
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Trajectory following with mobile, holonomic robot

Hi guys I wanted to ask if there is really no package / stack available that implements position control for velocity-controlled holonomic mobile robots? And that also features a ...
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Collision detection in Python

Hello everyone! I would like to ask a simple question. How can we detect collisions in Python? (as simple as possible) My goal is as follows: Want to check a state validity and a trajectory validity ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 on PR2 is unable to install libfreenect-dev

Hello, I am working on a PR2 robot (hydro) and I would like to install libfreenect-dev to develop a package for rgbd (kinect) mapping. However, I cannot install this library. I receive the message &...
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unable to launch pr2 keyboard teleop on hydro

I was trying to launch pr2 keyboard teleop on hydro but I shown the following error ERROR: cannot launch node of type [pr2_teleop/teleop_pr2_keyboard]: can't locate node [teleop_pr2_keyboard] in ...
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a moveit pr2 tutorial terminates with a mutex_lock error

I run a moveit pr2 tutorial like so: roslaunch pr2_moveit_tutorials move_group_interface_tutorial.launch and it runs through different motions fine but at the end ...
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relax a subset of PR2 controllers

After bringing up a PR2 robot, the controllers are all fixed. I wonder is there a way that I can relax one arm and have other controllers still fixed. Anyone who knows how to do this? Thanks a lot! ...
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PR2, Indigo, will it be ever a thing?

Actually this question is only for information. I just would like to know if it's in somebody's schedule to be working with the robot with the indigo version of ros. When I see the github repo, I don'...
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robot (PR2) physical information

Hello I've been working with lasers for laser avoidance, and because of the Eigen/Core bug, I skipped using a Laser projector and did the computation of tilt scan into base scan by hand. Rotation is ...
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Is PR2 also follow DH Convention?

I found weird things. I open rviz for PR2. We can see that in /base_link, z axis is blue. But why left arm joint axis is not blue but green? Is PR2 follow DH convention? If not, how to understand the ...
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How to solve opengl2.1 support problem on PR2?

I use ROS groovy on PR2. I try to run: ssh -X [email protected] roslaunch moveit_setup_assistant setup_assistant.launch But it says: ...
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Does anyone have an extra PR2 replacement power board? (PR2 replacement parts)

Dear PR2 users, I am maintaining a PR2 at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the University of Bremen. We have been diagnosing an issue with our robot since September 15th together with the ...
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Waiting for the joint_trajectory_action server

Hey Guys, I am trying to do some demos on a real Pr2, but I cant make it move it arms. At first, I tried http://wiki.ros.org/pr2_interactive_manipulation And there occurs no error, robot comes up and ...
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cannot launch node head_pointer on pr2_surrogate, Oculus Rift dk1

Hey Guys, I am trying to use pr2_surrogate with oculus dk1. I get the oculus working with rviz and the kinect rendering to it, but I can't get the robot head to follow the head tracking. After I ...
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bash problems on pr2, robot command not found

Hey guys, I was having some issues with the kinect on the pr2 and so I had to uninstall and reinstall openni. I now get the kinect working (roslaunch / ros commands in general work), but somehow I ...
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Collision is not detected with cylinder model

I am testing the arm_navigation's collision detection for a virtual object added to the planning scene and a virtual object attached to the robot. When using CYLINDER models, the collision detection ...
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PR2 + Hydro - Easiest way to close a gripper?

Hi all, After interacting with some objects on a table, the grasp of the PR2 opens. I need to close it after each iteration, to be able to compare the changes in the scene before and after the ...
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PR2 rqt_plot has the error TopicCompleter.update_topics(): could not get message class

I have written a publisher in PR2's computer to publish message whose type is "beginner_tutorials/Num" on topic "/chatter2". Then I want to ...
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Package ros-hydro-pr2-common missing?

Hello, I'm working through this Gazebo tutorial, and I get to the point where we're told to do sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-pr2-common However, apt-get comes back with "E: Unable to locate ...
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Future of ROS, Willow Garage, PR2

Hi, What do pioneers of the ROS Community think about the future of ROS. Could you point me to some good articles or magazine/newspaper interviews on this topic? What do they make of the end of Willow ...
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which version support PR2

HI: can you tell me which ros version support deskop-full-PR2 ? where is download PR2 e-book ? Originally posted by Eric.long on ROS Answers with karma: 5 on 2014-08-08 Post ...
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giving goals with actionlib - in hydro

I am trying to get the action lib tutorial (http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/SendingSimpleGoals) with stage (default simulation) and gazebo (pr2, ...
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How can i drive the joints of the pr2 arm manually?

Hi all! what we want to do is drive the angles of the arm joints of the pr2 manually. They are computet continously in a motion planning algorithm and send to the arm joints. So far I have looked at: (...
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ROS Answers SE migration: rostest on pr2

Is it possible to use rostest on the PR2? I'm running them fine in simulation with pr2_gazebo. When I run on the real PR2 (of course without pr2_gazebo) I see: ...
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pr2 tutorials still worth?

Hi all, I was wondering whether it was worth digging into the pr2 tutorials. They seemed to be reference a few releases ago to get started with ROS but they really seem outdated now (no support in ...
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PR2 hydro tuckarms

I'm just testing the pr2 simulation in hydro and I noticed that I cannot even do tuckarms. Is this normal? something changed in the way you do tuckarms now? Originally posted by silgon on ROS Answers ...
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