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hector_slam kinda running away

hector_slam

asked 2014-04-25 06:14:40 -0500

Hendrik Wiese

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Hi folks,

got a problem with hector_slam here. For about a minute or so it's working like a charm. I can drive around with my robot seeing its estimated pose being sufficiently precize. But after a while hector_slam tends to drift away. The matcher just appears to stop matching.

Any idea what could be causing this behavior?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers, Hendrik

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answered 2014-04-25 07:53:58 -0500

Stefan Kohlbrecher

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There are two likely causes for this:

The system uses a fixed size map behind the scenes, which should be of sufficient size for most scenarios. If your robot travels far, it could go beyond map borders.
You reach an area that leads to a scan matching failure due to not enough features in the environment, or the robot moves too fast.

There really should be no reason that leads to failures solely based on the time the system has been running.

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I've switched to AMCL now which works pretty well. Thanks anyway.

Hendrik Wiese ( 2014-05-06 23:17:19 -0500 )edit

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