I am running ROS Indigo with Gazebo 5.1 in Ubuntu 14.04.2 64bits. I am executing the following commands:
roslaunch kobuki_gazebo kobuki_empty_world.launch
roslaunch kobuki_keyop keyop.launch
rosrun rviz rviz
And when teleoperating the robot moves properly in RViz but not in Gazebo: the rotating movements seem to be OK but going forward/backward is not working.
Also, at the beginning the robot simulation was shaky. I fixed that by removing the custom physics of the empty.world file in kobuki_gazebo package and this part is good now.
Any advice on how to debug the issue? Thank you!
Terminal output for
roslaunch kobuki_gazebo kobuki_empty_world.launch :
~/catkin_turtlebot$ roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_world.launch ... logging to /home/jvgomez/.ros/log/39c6131c-f94b-11e4-95e6-7824afa13789/roslaunch-RR05-16926.log Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile. Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
started roslaunch server http://RR05:40114/
SUMMARY
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PARAMETERS * /bumper2pointcloud/pointcloud_radius:
0.24 * /cmd_vel_mux/yaml_cfg_file: /opt/ros/indigo/s... * /depthimage_to_laserscan/output_frame_id: /camera_depth_frame * /depthimage_to_laserscan/range_min:
0.45 * /depthimage_to_laserscan/scan_height: 10 * /robot_description: , set to ""
[spawn_turtlebot_model-4] process has finished cleanly log file: /home/jvgomez/.ros/log/39c6131c-f94b-11e4-95e6-7824afa13789/spawn_turtlebot_model-4*.log
**UPDATE** I have also tested the playground demo (http://wiki.ros.org/kobuki_gazebo?distro=indigo), everything loads OK and visualization is also OK, but the robot does not move at all.
**UPDATE 2** I have tried TurtleBot tutorials, but with turtlebot_gazebo from source and, as before, everything is visualized, I can even see the pointclouds on RViz, but teleoperation still does not work and a couple of errors appear in RViz: Grid>Transform>For frame [odom]: frame [odom] does not exist and RobotModel>Transform>No transform from [wheel_left_link] to [base_footprint] and the same for right wheel. Obviously I am missing to launch something.