Navigation + 3D SLAM + Kinect
Hello all,
I am currently working towards developing a navigation system on a non-pr2 robot. So far my colleagues and I can control the robot using keyboard teleop in ROS and obtain various sensor readings like odometry from the encoders, rgb+d data from the kinect, and some sonar, IR readings from the base of the platform. Now we are working towards developing the navigation, path planning, map building portion of the robot system. I have found the navigation tutorials here at ros.org: http://wiki.ros.org/navigation, but we would like to implement some 3D-SLAM using the rgbdslam or 2D-SLAM using the hector_slam.
Therefore, we were wondering which of these is the best to implement with the hardware we currently have? Ideally, I think we would like to use both the 3D SLAM and 2D SLAM (or is this wildly computationally expensive/redundant?).
Additionally, what is the difference between hector_slam and the gmapping slam?
Thank you and Kind Regards, Martin
as far as I know, hector_mapping needs no odometery info as input, and it publishes odom. while gmapping needs odom as input, you should get that from sth like a wheel encoder. but kinect seems not able to satisfy hector mapping because of short sight(laser scan sensor might be ok)