Robot Navigation Within a Corridor

asked 2014-06-06 19:31:21 -0500

ROSCMBOT
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Hello,

I'm trying to add a "virtual" corridor along the waypoints generated by the global planner (waypoints are in the middle of the virtual corridor), so the robot never leaves this "virtual" corridor when it's moving between the waypoints using a local planner. As an example, if during the robot's navigation within this corridor, an obstacle appears in front of the robot and covers the entire width of the corridor, the robot should stop.

I was wondering if I could do this by updating the costmap (nav_msgs/OccupancyGrid), and marking all the cells outside the "virtual" corridor as obstacles at the beginning?

Thanks.

answered 2014-06-06 20:33:58 -0500

ahendrix

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The correct solution here is probably to modify the local planner, rather than trying to coerce the existing local planner to do what you've described. Here's why:

In the local planners, if the path is completely blocked they will abort and trigger a re-planning by the global planner. I suspect this isn't what you want.

By contrast, if you write your own local planner you can explicitly have it stay within a certain distance of the global plan, and have a configurable timeout for it to wait before triggering a re-planning when the path is completely blocked.

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Thanks. Yes, I don't want the robot to replan if the path is completely blocked. In the ROS Navigation Stack, the default local planner is implemented based on the Dynamic Window Approach. Is there a way to modify the DWA planner to keep the robot within a certain distance of the global plan?

ROSCMBOT ( 2014-06-06 21:25:33 -0500 )edit

I haven't spent much time working with the DWA planner codebase, so I don't have any specific guidance to offer there.