Is there any reactive proximity collision checker package available?
Yes, Recently I have been developing my own motion planning system using ROS stack, but I want to add a collision checker as my safety controller just to make double sure that the navigation is truly...
View ArticleWhen planning a trajectory, why is there never an initial in-place rotation?
Maybe this is a result of my configuration choices, but why does the planner never do an initial in-place rotation? It is happy to do an in-place rotation at the end of a move.
View ArticleCan a costmap's inscribed_radius and circumscribed_radius be set from the...
Motivated by this question (http://answers.ros.org/question/233809), I dug into the parameters of [costmap_2d](http://wiki.ros.org/costmap_2d) and [move_base](http://wiki.ros.org/move_base). I had two...
View ArticleBest way to bypass move_base action server for position move
For general navigation, I'm using move_base. There are times when I would like to control my motion controller (Galil) directly by sending it position commands. Is the way to do this to write my own...
View ArticleAccessing inflation layer from costmap_2d::Costmap2DROS
Hello When I access costmap_2d::Costmap2DROS.getCostmap().getCost(), which layer do I read from? When using the costmap arguement in the function makePlan() in the global planner of move_base, and...
View ArticleHow to change size of the inflation in move_base costmap?
 This is how the costmap looks right now. The yellow stuff has the value 254. The blue stuff has the value...
View ArticleThe move_base isn't subscribing to /robot1/map
**Hello everyone,** *I'm trying to add a namespace to my robot. Firstly, I added* `_${arg robot_name}` *after all frames. I can control my different robots with* `rqt_robot_steering` *via their own...
View ArticleSending goals to move_base as lat/long coordinates
Is there some way of sending goals to the navigation stack as latitude/longitude coordinates? I know that you can send a goal to /move_base_simple/goal as relative coordinates - i.e. you specify an xyz...
View Articlemove_base in uneven terrain (slopes)
Hi, I'm confronted with the situation of a car-like robot driving in uneven terrain, i.e. the ground is not plain but there are (slight) hills and (slight) slopes. We are not operating in the Rocky...
View ArticleHow to use move_base with the DWA planner as the local planner in kinetic
Hello, I am really confused as how to use the DWA for local planning with move_base. It seems that dwa is now a bool parameter of the base_local_planner/TrajectoryPlannerROS. But then how to access the...
View Articlemove_base for kinetic armhf
Hi - I installed Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04 on an armhf device (Raspberry Pi 3). There does not appear to be a move_base package available:...
View ArticleHesitate! When turtlebot meet the obstacles
I was using turtlebot to do navigation experiments based on `ROS_navigation` stack. **I found that the turtlebot was very hesitate when it met some obstacles in the front.** Even though the...
View ArticleHow to call ~make_plan service, give me an instance pls
How to call ~make_plan service, give me an instance please. ---------------------------------------- The [`~make_plan` service](http://wiki.ros.org/move_base#Services) is given by `move_base` package....
View ArticleIs there a way to find out the distance to goal in move_base?
I would like to send a new goal to the robot as soon as it reaches close to the goal (within a certain distance). I would like to know if there is a way to find out the distance to goal. I do know...
View Articlecollvoid - changing status to success
I am using a [multi robot collision avoidance package](http://wiki.ros.org/multi_robot_collision_avoidance). I send a goal to each robot, and once the goal is reached, the new goal is sent. The problem...
View ArticleIgnore isolated laser-beams
Hello all, I'm configuring my robot's move_base package, more specifically the costmap parameters. Is it possible to ignore laser beams that only appear during 1-2 iterations, and only consider the...
View ArticleLocal planner stops working while global planner updates path
Hi together, I am facing a problem. I am using the sbpl planner from [this](https://github.com/MASKOR/maskor_navigation/tree/master/sbpl_lattice_planner) git as local planner and the...
View ArticleWhy doesn't move_base depend on move_base_msgs
Looking at the `CMakeLists.txt` for `move_base` ([link](https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation/blob/kinetic-devel/move_base/CMakeLists.txt)), why is there no mention of `move_base_msgs` ? I would...
View Articleproblem with robot localization using amcl
Hi all, I have a mobile robot and I would like it to navigate in a room, I already have a map of the room. I am using wheel encoders for the odometry,...
View ArticleROS frontier exploration: Robot doesn't move
Hi there. I'm currently trying to use move_base, base_local_planner and frontier_exploration on a turtlebot 2 to autonomously explore a room. I currently am using a static map (from hector mapping)...
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