Cannot Launch node of type [tf/static_transform_publisher]: can't locate node [static_transform_publisher] in package [tf_frame]

Dear experts

I am following the lesson 2 of the course ROSNavigationIn5Days, exercise 2.10

In the previou exercises I could launch the nodes which drawed the map and the node which captured and displayed the map information through the use scripts in Python… However in this exercise the solution just presents the launch file, and any node written in Python with the name “static_transform_publisher”. I believe the reason is that this node is a “ready-to-use” node provided with the root of pre-installed packages of ros-Distro, in my case Kinetic, and must be in the file /opt/Ros/kinetic/include/static…

Am I wrong? Is this a problem:
1 -of that this node does not exist?
2-Must I dowload the static_transform_publisher.h script from a git-hub for example?
3-Is a problem of source? I believe no, because I have sourced the setup.bash and setup.sh in user and in opt directories…

Thanks in advance

Hi @marcusvini178,

What this “humble” error means is that it cannot find the node (file) you’re trying to launch:

@bayodesegun the issue is that…is about the exercise 2.10 the solution just show me the launch file, which I copied exactly as it exhibits…however the solution does not show me how to configure the static_transform_publisher node, in python or c++ language…I don’t have this file, and I also don’t know how to programm a static_tranform_publisher. I have already coursed in ROS wiki a Tranformer turtle tutorial, which explains how to broadcast and listen a frame and follow it. However I need the static_transform_publisher source code…than later to launch it…Where could I take it?
Thanks in advance

Sorry @marcusvini178 for all the trouble,

One of our experts that know more about this course will have a look.

Thanks very much
I will tell you a mistake I was doing: I was compiling and installing from source several packages on my personal linux ubuntu 16.04 Ros kinetic, in my workspace. I realized that I just do the homework in the workspace from Robot_Ignite_Academy.
However I am facing the same issue with the exercise 2.10

The transformation of frames does not happen just using the command line of static_transform_publisher.
In this way I copied the source_code of static_transform_publisher.cpp inside the src directory from my package “kobuki_Transfomr_Static” which I generated to launch this node. I obtained the code from https://github.com/davheld/tf/blob/master/src/static_transform_publisher.cpp and I think they use quaternion angles instead Euller nomenclatur, so there is one additional argument for the angles. I configured my package and CMakeLists.txt to depend from roscpp rospy std_msgs and tf. And the package.xml was generated with the build and exe_depends regularly.
However the static_transform_publish was not found. I configured the launch file correctly, as you can see below:

I also sourced the workspace in setup.bash and setup.sh such as the root ros-distro setup.bash and sh
I compiled all the packages with success through the catkin_make, however when I try to launch the node

command: roslaunch kobuki_transform_static pub_static_tf.launch

I have the following error:

ERROR: cannot launch node of type [kobuki_transform_static/home/user/catkin_ws/src/kobuki_transform_static/src/static_transform_publisher.cpp]: can’t locate node [home/user/catkin_ws/src/kobuki_transform_static/src/static_transform_publisher.cpp] in package[kobuki_transform_static]

My CMakelist is:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)

project(kobuki_transform_static)

Compile as C++11, supported in ROS Kinetic and newer

add_compile_options(-std=c++11)

Find catkin macros and libraries

if COMPONENTS list like find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS xyz)

is used, also find other catkin packages

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS

roscpp

rospy

##static_transform

std_msgs

tf

)

System dependencies are found with CMake’s conventions

find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS system)

Uncomment this if the package has a setup.py. This macro ensures

modules and global scripts declared therein get installed

catkin_python_setup()

################################################

Declare ROS messages, services and actions

################################################

To declare and build messages, services or actions from within this

package, follow these steps:

* Let MSG_DEP_SET be the set of packages whose message types you use in

your messages/services/actions (e.g. std_msgs, actionlib_msgs, …).

* In the file package.xml:

* add a build_depend tag for “message_generation”

* add a build_depend and a exec_depend tag for each package in MSG_DEP_SET

* If MSG_DEP_SET isn’t empty the following dependency has been pulled in

but can be declared for certainty nonetheless:

* add a exec_depend tag for “message_runtime”

* In this file (CMakeLists.txt):

* add “message_gI have the following error:eneration” and every package in MSG_DEP_SET to

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS …)

* add “message_runtime” and every package in MSG_DEP_SET to

catkin_package(CATKIN_DEPENDS …)

* uncomment the add_*_files sections below as needed

and list every .msg/.srv/.action file to be processed

* uncomment the generate_messages entry below

* add every package in MSG_DEP_SET to generate_messages(DEPENDENCIES …)

Generate messages in the ‘msg’ folder

add_message_files(

FILES

Message1.msg

Message2.msg

)

Generate services in the ‘srv’ folder

add_service_files(

FILES

Service1.srv

Service2.srv

)

Generate actions in the ‘action’ folder

add_action_files(

FILES

Action1.action

Action2.action

)

Generate added messages and services with any dependencies listed here

generate_messages(

DEPENDENCIES

std_msgs

)

################################################

Declare ROS dynamic reconfigure parameters

################################################

To declare and build dynamic reconfigure parameters within this

package, follow these steps:

* In the file package.xml:

* add a build_depend and a exec_depend tag for “dynamic_reconfigure”

* In this file (CMakeLists.txt):

* add “dynamic_reconfigure” to

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS …)

* uncomment the “generate_dynamic_reconfigure_options” section below

and list every .cfg file to be processed

Generate dynamic reconfigure parameters in the ‘cfg’ folder

generate_dynamic_reconfigure_options(

cfg/DynReconf1.cfg

cfg/DynReconf2.cfg

)

###################################

catkin specific configuration

###################################

The catkin_package macro generates cmake config files for your package

Declare things to be passed to dependent projects

INCLUDE_DIRS: uncomment this if your package contains header files

LIBRARIES: libraries you create in this project that dependent projects also need

CATKIN_DEPENDS: catkin_packages dependent projects also need

DEPENDS: system dependencies of this project that dependent projects also need

catkin_package(

INCLUDE_DIRS include

LIBRARIES kobuki_transform_static

CATKIN_DEPENDS roscpp rospy static_transform std_msgs tf

DEPENDS system_lib

)

###########

Build

###########

Specify additional locations of header files

Your package locations should be listed before other locations

include_directories(

include

${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}

)

Declare a C++ library

add_library(${PROJECT_NAME}

src/${PROJECT_NAME}/kobuki_transform_static.cpp

)

Add cmake target dependencies of the library

as an example, code may need to be generated before libraries

either from message generation or dynamic reconfigure

add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME} ${${PROJECT_NAME}_EXPORTED_TARGETS} ${catkin_EXPORTED_TARGETS})

Declare a C++ executable

With catkin_make all packages are built within a single CMake context

The recommended prefix ensures that target names across packages don’t collide

add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME}_node src/kobuki_transform_static_node.cpp)

Rename C++ executable without prefix

The above recommended prefix causes long target names, the following renames the

target back to the shorter version for ease of user use

e.g. “rosrun someones_pkg node” instead of “rosrun someones_pkg someones_pkg_node”

set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME}_node PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME node PREFIX “”)

Add cmake target dependencies of the executable

same as for the library above

add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME}_node ${${PROJECT_NAME}_EXPORTED_TARGETS} ${catkin_EXPORTED_TARGETS})

Specify libraries to link a library or executable target against

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}_node

${catkin_LIBRARIES}

)

#############

Install

#############

all install targets should use catkin DESTINATION variables

Mark executable scripts (Python etc.) for installation

in contrast to setup.py, you can choose the destination

install(PROGRAMS

scripts/my_python_script

DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DESTINATION}

)

Mark executables for installation

install(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME}_node

RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DESTINATION}

)

Mark libraries for installation

install(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME}

ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}

LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}

RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CATKIN_GLOBAL_BIN_DESTINATION}

)

Mark cpp header files for installation

install(DIRECTORY include/${PROJECT_NAME}/

DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DESTINATION}

FILES_MATCHING PATTERN “*.h”

PATTERN “.svn” EXCLUDE

)

Mark other files for installation (e.g. launch and bag files, etc.)

install(FILES

# myfile1

# myfile2

DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_SHARE_DESTINATION}

)

#############

Testing

#############

Add gtest based cpp test target and link libraries

catkin_add_gtest(${PROJECT_NAME}-test test/test_kobuki_transform_static.cpp)

if(TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}-test)

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}-test ${PROJECT_NAME})

endif()

Add folders to be run by python nosetests

catkin_add_nosetests(test)

And my package.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0"?> kobuki_transform_static 0.0.0 The kobuki_transform_static package

user

TODO

I have the following error:
I have the following error:

I have the following error:

<buildtool_depend>catkin</buildtool_depend>
<build_depend>roscpp</build_depend>
<build_depend>rospy</build_depend>

<build_depend>std_msgs</build_depend>
<build_depend>tf</build_depend>
<build_export_depend>roscpp</build_export_depend>
<build_export_depend>rospy</build_export_depend>

<build_export_depend>std_msgs</build_export_depend>
<build_export_depend>tf</build_export_depend>
<exec_depend>rI have the following error:oscpp</exec_depend>
<exec_depend>rospy</exec_depend>

<exec_depend>std_msgs</exec_depend>
<exec_depend>tf</exec_depend>

Thanks in advance.
Please help me to solve this issue, I am really trying to advance in the course.
Best Regards
Marcus