Laser Scan Matcher Compatibility

[HUDiwan]

Hello, I am trying to use the laser scan matcher in Kinetic - Ubuntu 16.04. However, the laser scan matcher node is not running. I believe it is compatibility issue, can you please verify?
Thanks.

[EwingKang]

@HUDiwan I can run the node on 16.04+Kinetic without problem( well, except the odometry bug that is)
Have you install CSM?

[trixr4kdz]

Hi @EwingKang, I'm also trying to do the same thing, but it seems like I can't get the odom->base_link tf. I'm using tf2_ros to publish the base_link->laser_frame and on my launch file for laser_scan_matcher_node, I have fixed_frame = odom and base_frame = base_link and I've remapped the scan topic to the correct topic. How did you manage to get yours to work? Also, what is CSM?

[EwingKang]

@trixr4kdz "CSM" stands for " Canonical Scan Matcher".
You can check whether you've installed that by sudo dpkg -l grep csm, there should be an entry of "ros-kinetic-csm", use apt-get to install if there's nothing. Please check [the official wiki] (http://wiki.ros.org/laser_scan_matcher) for more info.
Did your scan matcher terminal give out any error? You may wanna check everything with rqt. If you still get nothing, I suggest you raise a question at ros Answers