Baxter_Gazebo: can't get current joint states
Hi,
Installed Baxter Simulator as per the instructions. When I run any of the python programs to allow the robot to do anything, I get something like the example below:
$ rrun baxter_examples joint_position_waypoints.py -l right Initializing node... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pipothy/ros_ws/src/baxter_examples/scripts/joint_position_waypoints.py", line 191, in <module>
main() File "/home/pipothy/ros_ws/src/baxter_examples/scripts/joint_position_waypoints.py", line 181, in main
waypoints = Waypoints(args.limb, args.speed, args.accuracy) File "/home/pipothy/ros_ws/src/baxter_examples/scripts/joint_position_waypoints.py", line 45, in __init__
self._limb = baxter_interface.Limb(self._arm) File "/home/pipothy/ros_ws/src/baxter_interface/src/baxter_interface/limb.py", line 121, in __init__
timeout_msg=err_msg) File "/home/pipothy/ros_ws/src/baxter_interface/src/baxter_dataflow/wait_for.py", line 55, in wait_for
raise OSError(errno.ETIMEDOUT, timeout_msg) OSError: [Errno 110] Right limb init failed to get current joint_states from robot/joint_states
I can't seem to find why. I can echo the topic and get data from it. Only unusual thing is the /robot/state/ says "Ready: False". Any idea why this might be?
Thanks!
A couple of comments: it can help to provide people with the instructions to reproduce the problem. There is an official Rethink github for Baxter, it might be a better place to debug the problem https://github.com/RethinkRobotics/baxter/issues
Thanks for your advice. I will mention exactly what I did: I already had ROS installed, but other than that, I followed the installation instructions at the link below line by line. I used the commands for kinetic and stopped after launching the baxter world: http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/wiki/Simulator_Installation I then enabled the robot using ran a command to start an example: http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/wiki/Joint_Position_Waypoints_Example This produced the above error.