Use with Carla Bag

[guzgonav]

Hi, I've been trying to make it work with Carla but I've not been able to.

The sample bag (hdl_400) works just fine, I have a ros2 bag created with Carla that contains imu, lidar and tf amongst others.
I changed the topic that receives the PointCloud2 from /velodyne_points to my carla topic, having this:
lidarslam.launch.py

mapping = launch_ros.actions.Node(
        package='scanmatcher',
        executable='scanmatcher_node',
        parameters=[main_param_dir],
        remappings=[('/input_cloud','/carla/ego_vehicle/lidar')],
        output='screen'
        )

I tried to change the tf to:

tf = launch_ros.actions.Node(
        package='tf2_ros',
        executable='static_transform_publisher',
        arguments=['0','0','0','0','0','0','1','ego_vehicle','ego_vehicle/lidar']
				)

As my tf_tree is:
frames_2023-12-20_23.13.49.pdf

But it keeps saying:
_[scanmatcher_node-1] [ERROR] [1703118618.801740320] [scan_matcher]: "base_link" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist.

Any idea what is the error?
(Im using ros2 humble)
Thank u in advance.

[rsasaki0109]

It seems necessary to also change the parameters related to tf on the lidarslam_ros2 side.

robot_frame_id: "base_link"

https://github.com/rsasaki0109/lidarslam_ros2/blob/develop/lidarslam/param/lidarslam.yaml#L4

[guzgonav]

Thanks, I found out what was causing the error, the correct paramers are:

mapping = launch_ros.actions.Node(
        package='scanmatcher',
        executable='scanmatcher_node',
        parameters=[main_param_dir],
        remappings=[('/input_cloud','/carla/ego_vehicle/lidar')],
        output='screen'
        )

    tf = launch_ros.actions.Node(
        package='tf2_ros',
        executable='static_transform_publisher',
        arguments=['0','0','0','0','0','0','1','base_link','/ego_vehicle']

After that change it works, I also modified the parameter you pointed out, from:
robot_frame_id: "base_link"
To:
robot_frame_id: "ego_vehicle"
And it keep working fine.

[rsasaki0109]

It seems this Issue has been resolved, so I'm closing it. Thank you for your report.

[wxyLuna2024]

Hi,
Can you share the .yaml parameters? I am trying to run the kitti bag but is encountering ndt failing issues