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ROS Navigation Stack: Global Planner

asked 2014-06-04 17:26:32 -0500

ROSCMBOT gravatar image

Hello,

The tutorial for Navigation Stack states, since the Global Planner assumes circular robots, it produces waypoints that are optimistic for the actual robot footprint, and therefore the generated path may be infeasible to follow.

I was wondering if it is still the case if we consider the circumscribed circle of the robot's footprint. In this case, is it not even more conservative?

Thanks.

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answered 2014-06-05 06:10:42 -0500

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If you pass in the circumscribed circle as the inner radius it will be conservative, i.e. plans should be feasible. On the other hand you might loose plans that would work, i.e. it's incomplete.

All this relates to global planners such as NavFn. There are global planners that plan actual trajectories in the configurations space and thus are correct (but usually slower).

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Thanks. 1- Does NavFn consider the radius of the inscribed circle of the robot's footprint? 2- Could you name Global Planners in ROS that plan actual trajectories in the configuration space?

ROSCMBOT gravatar image ROSCMBOT  ( 2014-06-05 07:38:40 -0500 )edit

1. yes, 2. One example that can do that: http://wiki.ros.org/sbpl

dornhege gravatar image dornhege  ( 2014-06-05 07:46:55 -0500 )edit

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