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I have a general question about the SLAM process, how do we know once the robot has complete its mapping process? Or is it just a matter of a being satisfied with the representation?
Unless your robot is in an entirely static environment, the mapping process is never finished. Things move, doors open, etc. It's up to you to decide when the map is sufficient for your purposes.
Ok that is understandable. But the environment I am working in is completely static. The reason im asking is that I have a requirement to satistfy which says I have to map x in x amount of time, and I need to document the experiment which I need to say when Ill stop the timer, if that makes sense.
That means you are going to implement an exploration algorithm, right? Let's say you use gmapping. Then, you need to navigate the robot to unknown areas. Comparing the performance of exploration methods does make sense. Otherwise, you are just comparing the proficiency of the human operators.
Yes I suppose I would need to implement an exploration algorithm. Im not necessarily measuring the performance of different algorithms but rather just the one I am using. If I implement an exploration algorithm will the algorithm "finish"? Because then I guess that would be answer to my question.
To finish the mapping process is your choice. You just specify a termination criteria. You will need a metric to do that. You can subscribe to the /map topic and use the ratio (number of known cells/number of unknown cells), for example. Finding a more meaningful metric is up to you.
Asked: 2015-07-08 12:52:16 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 08 '15
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