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Odometry error in translation [closed]

asked 2015-09-11 05:08:22 -0500

WB
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updated 2015-09-11 05:10:57 -0500

Dear all,

I am currently using my holonomic robot and laser sensor to build a map with slam_gmapping. Howerver the map quality is poor. Then I found out something wrong with odometry by following this tuning tutorial to test odometry.

When I performed rotation, setting decay time of laser scan is 20, then scan data showed good result. However, when I put robot 90 cm away of wall, then moves robot toward to the wall, the scan data looked strange like this.

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So what could be problem with my odometry and any solution ?

Thank you all!

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answered 2015-09-11 05:42:46 -0500

dornhege

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It seems that your translation in odometry is incorrect. You can just check, by displaying the /odom /base_link transform and driving, e.g., 1m ahead. The transform should have moved 1m. If not, fix your odometry.

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Thanks Dornhege!

So this is the result of (rosrun tf tf_echo /odom /base_link) when I move robot forward 1 metre in real. Seems like x value is about 12m not 1m. Then how should I change to get the right value of x ?

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