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how to force hector slam to set robot position ?

asked 2015-02-28 15:12:08 -0600

babaksn
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updated 2015-02-28 15:13:06 -0600

hi we have a hokuyo laser and in the first seconds of running hector slam specially when the robot's laser data is few(for example in small places)
the robot position has very bad data jumps , but after a while it goes well .
therefore i want to force hector slam to consider and set the robot's position as 0,0 in the first seconds(for example 5 seconds). how can i do this?
i have tried to publish the robot's position to "tf" topic but it didn't work .
also i have launched the hector pose estimiation but it didn't solve the problem.

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answered 2015-02-28 16:07:27 -0600

Stefan Kohlbrecher

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You can set the robot pose via the (I think undocumented) "/initialpose" topic. This is analogous to how things are done in AMCL. The easiest way to publish to this topic is using rviz and using the "2D Pose Estimate" tool.

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i am publishing the initialpose but the problem of data jumping still remains. is it possible to change the source code to consider robot pose as 0,0 for a while?

babaksn ( 2015-03-01 08:54:06 -0600 )edit

Yes, that's of course possible. The update loop is here https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-p... and could be modified. I apologize for not having the time to give detailed assistance.

Stefan Kohlbrecher ( 2015-03-01 09:09:18 -0600 )edit

thank you . i will figure it out.

babaksn ( 2015-03-01 10:00:35 -0600 )edit

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