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/tf sends messages at different timestamp

asked 2019-03-05 03:17:34 -0600

murdock gravatar image

updated 2019-03-05 05:48:29 -0600

I have a /tf message that seems to send messages at different timestamps. I added comments "// Look here" to highlight the stamps in secs and Im mostly intrigued by the one with the comment "// Look here !!" as the time stamp in secs has absolutely different timestamp. However, the next after that one follows the the pattern as the majority.

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Why does this happen?

--
transforms: 
- 
header: 
  seq: 0
  stamp: 
    secs: 1305031234        // Look here
    nsecs: 763107844
  frame_id: /kinect
child_frame_id: /openni_camera
transform: 
  translation: 
    x: -0.0112272525515
    y: 0.0502554918469
    z: -0.0574041954071
  rotation: 
    x: 0.129908557896
    y: -0.141388223098
    z: 0.681948549539
    w: 0.705747343414
- 
header: 
  seq: 0
  stamp: 
    secs: 1305031234           // Look here
    nsecs: 763107844
  frame_id: /world
child_frame_id: /kinect
transform: 
  translation: 
    x: 1.28183615112
    y: 0.60716934967
    z: 1.60902340698
  rotation: 
    x: -0.226407331155
    y: -0.209261051914
    z: 0.662704621347
    w: 0.682474993971
 ---
 transforms: 
- 
  header: 
    seq: 0
    stamp: 
    secs: 1551776935     // Look here   !!!
    nsecs: 528851222
  frame_id: world
  child_frame_id: camera_pose
transform: 
  translation: 
    x: 0.0543486074629
    y: -0.0490532501685
    z: -0.083467717153
  rotation: 
    x: 0.0249910632545
    y: -0.369232593093
    z: 0.0535471565154
    w: 0.927456436165
---
transforms: 
- 
header: 
  seq: 0
  stamp: 
    secs: 1305031234                 // Look here
    nsecs: 773104542
  frame_id: /kinect
child_frame_id: /openni_camera
transform: 
  translation: 
    x: -0.0112272525515
    y: 0.0502554918469
    z: -0.0574041954071
  rotation: 
    x: 0.129908557896
    y: -0.141388223098
    z: 0.681948549539
    w: 0.705747343414
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Can you post your tree?

EdwardNur gravatar image EdwardNur  ( 2019-03-05 03:34:13 -0600 )edit

It's likely there are either multiple hosts involved that don't have their clocks synchronised, or a bag is being played together with live nodes.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2019-03-05 03:45:02 -0600 )edit

@gvdhoorn, what do you mean by live nodes? @EdwardNur, updated my question with the tree,

murdock gravatar image murdock  ( 2019-03-05 05:47:05 -0600 )edit

"live nodes" as in: nodes that publish messages that are not part of the bag. That is of course ok, but then use_sim_time should probably be used. If the bag contains messages "from the past" (as they probably all do), then not setting use_sim_time will cause "real time" to be mixed with old ..

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2019-03-05 05:50:00 -0600 )edit

.. stamps, which can lead to issues such as the one you show here.

Whether that is the case here depends of course on you: only you know how you configured your system.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2019-03-05 05:50:38 -0600 )edit

According to the screenshot of your TF tree, it would appear that you have rosbag play running and camera_pose is being broadcast by the /Mono node.

Are you specifying --clock? /Mono seems to be using Wallclock, not the clock from the bag.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2019-03-05 05:51:34 -0600 )edit

Nope, not using clock. Will check it out.

murdock gravatar image murdock  ( 2019-03-05 08:10:39 -0600 )edit

@gvdhoorn, setting up --clock didnt work. I get the same issue.

murdock gravatar image murdock  ( 2019-03-14 07:37:52 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-03-14 08:12:02 -0600

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I looked up this answer. Just by setting the use_sim_time alone didnt work in the beginning.

I completely stopped the roscore, then set the sim_time param and then let all of my stuff run and it seemed to work.

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