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How to move Clearpath Husky A200 by a specific distance by publishing to a topic?

asked 2015-06-23 17:04:23 -0500

nemesis gravatar image

updated 2015-06-24 08:31:59 -0500

I looked at some tutorials online, and I came across -

rostopic pub /husky/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist

That does the trick well, when you specify the parameters, if I wish to keep the robot moving I believe. But I want to move it forward based on distance. Like move forward by 0.5m with 0.1 velocity and stop. What's the most direct way to do so?

I am avoiding creating a separate node for this and keeping it simple. Please let me know if more details are required.

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answered 2015-06-24 13:36:16 -0500

Ryan gravatar image

Writing a simple node in rospy is probably the fastest way to get this done. The Husky driver itself doesn't have any position inputs, but it does publish a standard odometry topic which you can subscribe to to check an estimate of distance traveled purely based on encoders.

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Thank you. Using this reference I am trying to get this done at the moment and will update accordingly. But is there any specific reason why you didn't allow for position in

nemesis gravatar image nemesis  ( 2015-06-29 15:13:50 -0500 )edit

The skid-steer/off-road nature of the platform means that ded-reckoned turns can't be performed with any accuracy whatsoever. As well, since the majority of users wrap some kind of high-level autonomy around it, we didn't want to add a feature which would go unused at best and confuse users at worst

Ryan gravatar image Ryan  ( 2015-06-30 17:24:14 -0500 )edit

Aah okay. Thank you! And I created a node instead which basically just moves the robot forward for couple of seconds using the geometry_msgs/Twist for now. It's working properly. Will check out the odometry topic too later. Thanks!

nemesis gravatar image nemesis  ( 2015-07-10 15:22:55 -0500 )edit

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