nbvPlanner crashes in simulation demo

[mattgiamou]

I managed to build the package by following the instructions in the README file, but when I run

roslaunch interface_nbvp_rotors flat_exploration.launch

I get the following error message in the console after Gazebo launches:

Msg Waiting for master.[firefly/nbvPlanner-10] process has died [pid 14015, exit code -11, cmd /home/mattgiamou/ethz_ws/devel/lib/nbvplanner/nbvPlanner cam0/camera_info:=/firefly/vi_sensor/left/camera_info cam1/camera_info:=/firefly/vi_sensor/right/camera_info pointcloud_throttled:=/firefly/vi_sensor/camera_depth/depth/points pose:=/firefly/ground_truth/pose_with_covariance nbvplanner:=/firefly/nbvplanner peer_pose_1:=peer_pose_1 peer_pose_2:=peer_pose_2 peer_pose_3:=peer_pose_3 name:=nbvPlanner log:=/home/mattgiamou/.ros/log/97ac42e8-ef73-11e5-9f74-b0c554bd9d41/firefly-nbvPlanner-10.log]. log file: /home/mattgiamou/.ros/log/97ac42e8-ef73-11e5-9f74-b0c554bd9d41/firefly-nbvPlanner-10*.log

The simulated firefly performs its initialization movement but then is unable to reach the nbvPlanner:

[ WARN] [1458572145.152252785, 22.020000000]: Planner not reachable

[birchera]

Thanks @mattgiamou for checking out the nbvplanner. From the information you posted, I can see that the planner node crashes before it starts planning anything. Can you post or link more information, such that I can try to figure out what the problem is?

In the meantime, please make sure your installation is correct (find the complete instructions in the wiki), especially that you build in release mode. You can set that as default for the whole workspace by typing

cd <your_catkin_workspace>
catkin config --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

[mattgiamou]

I wasn't building in release mode, my apologies! Thanks for the help!