Hello ,

I am a student pursuing master's degree.My mentor wants me to configure clearpath husky for indoor and outdoor navigation using ROS. I am fairly new to ROS. I read about packages topics nodes etc. Now i am trying this code below to make an action client which lead my robot to move 1 meter.

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <move_base_msgs/MoveBaseAction.h>
#include <actionlib/client/simple_action_client.h>
#include <queue>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <stdlib.h>

 typedef actionlib::SimpleActionClient<move_base_msgs::MoveBaseAction> MoveBaseClient;

 int main(int argc, char** argv){
   ros::init(argc, argv, "simple_navigation_goals");

   //tell the action client that we want to spin a thread by default
   MoveBaseClient ac("/move_base/cmd_vel", true);

   //wait for the action server to come up
   while(!ac.waitForServer(ros::Duration(5.0))){
     ROS_INFO("Waiting for the move_base action server to come up");
   }

   move_base_msgs::MoveBaseGoal goal;

   //we'll send a goal to the robot to move 1 meter forward
   goal.target_pose.header.frame_id = "base_link";
   goal.target_pose.header.stamp = ros::Time::now();

   goal.target_pose.pose.position.x = 1.0;
   goal.target_pose.pose.orientation.w = 1.0;

   ROS_INFO("Sending goal");
   ac.sendGoal(goal);

   ac.waitForResult();

   if(ac.getState() == actionlib::SimpleClientGoalState::SUCCEEDED)
     ROS_INFO("Hooray, the base moved 1 meter forward");
   else
     ROS_INFO("The base failed to move forward 1 meter for some reason");

   return 0;
}

But i am not able to move it. It wait for action server response and stuck on that. Any help ?

As far as i read for indoor localization i need to use SLAM and gmapping lauch files and for outdoor locatlization i need to convert x y to GPS. Any help in that matter will be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance.