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WARNING: no messages received and simulated time is active. Laser Scan Matcher

asked 2018-04-16 04:46:52 -0600

anonymous user

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ROS Kinetic - Ubuntu 16.04

Looking this up, all the forum posts I can find are either about gazebo or don't really have an answer.

Laser Scan Matcher node takes an input and produces an output. The input isn't empty, I checked with $ rostopic echo /theinputtopic.

If I put <param name="/use_sim_time" value="true"/>in the node launch file, and I do $rostopic echo /outputtopic , I get:

WARNING: no messages received and simulated time is active. Is /clock being published?

If I put <param name="/use_sim_time" value="false"/> in the node launch file, and I do $rostopic echo /outputtopic , I get absolutely nothing, just an empty new line.

Putting --clock as argument also doesn't seem to have any effect.

What's causing this error?

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Have you solved this problem yet? If not, could you post the entire launch file, and maybe a screenshot of an rqt_graph of the system running with the bag playback?

robustify gravatar image robustify  ( 2018-04-28 01:06:32 -0600 )edit

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answered 2018-04-28 07:40:35 -0600

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The input topic was /tf_static which only gets sent out a single time, the very first millisecond. The trick is to run everything you need to do (example: $ rviz and $ rosrun somepackage somealgorithm and then run $ rosbag play bagfile.bag

This way, $ rostopic echo /tf_static isn't empty, and everything functions properly.

Basically, the topic was a bit annoying and had to be run last, otherwise everything else doesn't work.

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Can"t understand what your answer has to do with the question

Kansai gravatar image Kansai  ( 2021-01-14 01:33:21 -0600 )edit

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