navigation with kinect question

asked 2012-03-28 00:51:21 -0500

Ocean
66 ●8 ●9 ●14

updated 2016-10-24 09:02:21 -0500

ngrennan
1 ●1 ●1

I`m a newer to the ROS,and now I want to do the simulation on my computer with the kinect first,and the final purpose is to do navigation with kinect.So I hope anyone can share your precious experiences about how to do navigation with kinect by steps.
The more detailed, the better!

I trully want to know the steps of using ros to accompish the vision navigation with kinect.By the way,now I have a robot but not the one showed on the ros.org.

Thanks very much!!!

edit retag flag offensive close merge delete

Comments

Thank you for your answers and advice! And I trully want to know the steps of using ros to accompish the vision navigation with kinect.By the way,now I have a robot but not the one showed on the ros.org,but the robot is alike TurtleBot

Ocean ( 2012-03-28 17:24:45 -0500 )edit

You can see this: http://answers.ros.org/question/9087/vslam-based-navigation-with-kinect-where-do-i

sam ( 2012-03-30 05:22:11 -0500 )edit

add a comment

0

answered 2012-03-28 01:10:45 -0500

McMurdo

1247 ●31 ●42 ●54

Using the kinect and doing a simulation are two different things. Do you have a kinect and do you wish to program it? Or do you wish to simulate kinnect data?

There is no way you can achieve navigation with just kinect. You will need a complete mobile robot to do that. Do you have a TurtleBot?

Please describe what you wish to do in detail.

edit flag offensive delete link

Comments

Is it possible to use slam_gmapping with Kinect? I ask this because gmapping seems to use Laser scans where as Kinect publishes point clouds. Thanks.

kshitij ( 2012-03-29 02:08:43 -0500 )edit

1

The gmapping_demo.launch file uses the kinect to do the mapping. The kinect data are presented to the algorithm as though it is coming from a laser. In reality, it is only the point cloud data that is converted to Laser-like data. The answer to your question is yes.