Can I send a goal without quaternion? [closed]

asked 2015-07-31 04:55:09 -0500

Gork
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Hello,

I'm pretty new to ROS, but I got a navigation stack working, now I want to send a goal without quaternion i.e. I don't care about the orientation of the robot, if he arrives on the coordinates I sent him to. Rotating the robot is somewhat time intensive and inaccurate. Is there an option to do this?

Thanks in advance, Gork

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answered 2016-03-19 06:52:13 -0500

Gamal Sallam
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Just answering this question for future inquiries.

You can do so by calculating the angle between the current position of the robot and the goal. Then convert this angle to quaternion and give it to send goal function. This way the robot will reach the goal without additional rotating after it arrives. Here is how:

    angle_to_goal=math.atan2(self.targety-self.currentY,  self.targetx-self.currentX)

    q_angle = tf.transformations.quaternion_from_euler(0, 0, angle_to_goal, axes='sxyz')

    q = Quaternion(*q_angle)

    self.goal = MoveBaseGoal()

    self.goal.target_pose.pose = Pose(Point(self.targetx, self.targety, 0.000), q)

    self.goal.target_pose.header.frame_id = 'map'

    self.move_base.send_goal(self.goal)

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answered 2015-07-31 05:43:46 -0500

Porti77
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You can create a new msg without quaternion, but you have to chage the code of nodes. Or you can send (0,0,0) (Roll, Pitch, Yaw) that in quaternion is (0,0,0,1)

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But in this case, you send a specific orientation that the robot will try to reach.

NEngelhard ( 2015-07-31 06:21:14 -0500 )edit

It doesn't seem like it's possible to NOT send a specific orientation, my current workaround is to setup the navigation stack with a really high goal yaw tolerance for the local planner. But that seems rather sloppy.

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