Important troubleshooting tips in ROS

We will now look at some of the common issues that are experienced when working with ROS, as well as tips on how to solve them.

One of ROS in-built tools to find issues in an ROS system is roswtf. roswtf is a command-line tool that checks for issues in the following areas of ROS:

  • Environment variables and configuration
  • Packages or meta-packages configuration
  • Launch files
  • Online graphs

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