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Kinect + gmapping

asked 2011-10-26 22:21:39 -0500

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updated 2016-10-24 09:05:40 -0500

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Hi everybody, I am trying to get the map of a room using the slam_gmapping node plus a kinect (the pointcloud is transformed in Laserscan with the pointcloud_to_laserscan package).

I am having some trouble... What is happening is that the new best pose calculated by the gmapping node is always quite far from the odometry (which is correct) and this brings to a wrong map as the robot "teleports" instantly from one position to another due to the correction.

Moreover I am getting (not so often) the following error:

[[31m[ERROR] [1319703421.207565904]: You requested a transform that is 17.136 \
seconds in the past,
but the tf buffer only has a history of 9.976 seconds.
 When trying to transform between /base_link and /odom.

As I have seen from the code this error is surely a problem because when it happens the transformation between map and odom is set to identity and this shifts everything (wouldn't be better to maintain the last transformation?). I have tried to slow down the /odom frame broadcaster down but it helps just a little.

Here is my launch file:

<launch>
        <node pkg="gmapping" type="slam_gmapping" name="slam_gmapping" output="screen">
        <param name="map_update_interval" value="1.0"/>
        <param name="maxUrange" value="6.0"/>
        <param name="sigma" value="0.05"/>
        <param name="kernelSize" value="1"/>
        <param name="lstep" value="0.05"/>
        <param name="astep" value="0.05"/>
        <param name="iterations" value="5"/>
        <param name="lsigma" value="0.075"/>
        <param name="ogain" value="3.0"/>
        <param name="lskip" value="0"/>
        <param name="srr" value="0.01"/>
        <param name="srt" value="0.02"/>
        <param name="str" value="0.01"/>
        <param name="stt" value="0.02"/>
        <param name="linearUpdate" value="0.10"/>
        <param name="angularUpdate" value="0.0.05"/>
        <param name="temporalUpdate" value="8.0"/>
        <param name="resampleThreshold" value="0.5"/>
        <param name="particles" value="300"/>
        <param name="xmin" value="-10.0"/>
        <param name="ymin" value="-10.0"/>
        <param name="xmax" value="10.0"/>
        <param name="ymax" value="10.0"/>
        <param name="delta" value="0.05"/>
        <param name="llsamplerange" value="0.01"/>
        <param name="llsamplestep" value="0.01"/>
        <param name="lasamplerange" value="0.005"/>
        <param name="lasamplestep" value="0.005"/>
    </node>
</launch>

Any suggestions?

Thank you

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Hai Lorenzo, how to convert the kinect point cloud to laser scan. The package pointcloud_to_laserscan does not have any nodes..

sai gravatar image sai  ( 2012-11-06 19:01:53 -0500 )edit

Thank u Lorenzo...

sai gravatar image sai  ( 2012-11-09 01:56:17 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-11-08 21:01:30 -0500

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Since I did it some time ago, I cannot remember well :) Whatever from the pointcloud_to_lasercan launch file I used: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mv7fg5pv2shvlk9/kinect_laser.launch

It seems to use the node of the nodelet package. Hope it will help

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