Re: [Playerstage-users] Getting vfh to work

[Alejandro R. M. <ale...@mo...>]

Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
> Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I'm trying to use the vfh driver with stage without much success. I 
>> have set up a basic configuration (see it at the end), and whenever I 
>> try to subscribe to the vfh position interface, player seems to hang. 
>> Stage continues running however (the gui is updated).
>>
>> I've tried both with playerv and with the vfh example program from 
>> player, they become unresponsive.
>>
>> Some gdb tracing reveals that player gets stuck at
>>
>> VFH_Class::SetupOdom
>>
>> waiting for some driver response (I guess it's the robot size).
> 
> 
> I don't know why I said this yesterday. Player hangs waiting for a lock. 
> See the attached snapshot for a full call stack. I copy:
> 
> main
> ClientManager::Update
> ClientManagerTCP::Read
> ClientDataTCP::Read
> ClientData::HandleRequests
> ClientData::UpdateRequested
> Driver::Subscribe
> VFH_Class::Setup
> VFH_Class::SetupOdom
> Driver::Request
> Driver::GetReply
> Driver::Lock
> 
> I'm using both player and stage from HEAD.

Uuups, I see this message when launching player, at the first stage 
device creation

Stage warning: setting odometric pose is not yet implemented

which I handn't noticed. Could it be somehow related?