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Hello,
I'm using ROS Navigation Stack on my robot. How can I get the robot to stop during navigation for example because of safety issues and after the safety issue was resolved the robot moves again towards the goal.
So basically I don't want to cancel the goal as mentioned in this thread
Thanks
The current ROS Navigation Stack does not offer a "pause navigation" method. Your best shot would be to implement a node that keeps track of the current goal and when a safety issue occurs, use the actionlib API to cancel the current goal (and therefore stop the robot) and when the safety issue is solved, send the goal again(so the robot moves again).
Hope this helps
Thanks for your input @David Lu, I have opened an issue here: https://github.com/ros-planning/navig... let's discuss about it
I used the actionlib to cancel the goal, but I found this method very unreactive. At the moment, if I have to stop my robot, I use its current position as new goal and this is more reactive.
This is done on the PR2, turtlebot and several other robots by way of a mux on the cmd_vel output. The mux is used to switch between the PS3 joystick cmd_vel and the navigation cmd_vel output, so that as soon as you press the deadman on the PS3 joystick, the cmd_vel topic is switched away from navigation and the robot stops moving and can be teleop-ed. You could do the same with any node that basically inserts itself between the navigation topic output and the base controller topic input.
Note that this doesn't actually stop navigation from trying to replan, etc, it just stops the robot from moving. Navigation might later decide that the goal has timed out if you leave it switched away for a while.
Asked: 2014-10-01 18:32:21 -0500
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Last updated: Oct 03 '14
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