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I can teleoperate on pr2 robot through roslaunch pr2_teleop_general pr2_teleop_general_keyboard.launch. I am also able to move pr2 robot by writing a C++ script. But I want to have 2 pr2 robots in my customised world and control move both of them. I am using ROS-Indigo with gazebo version 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.
You need namespaces for launching multiple robots. And namespacing packages, frames, topics... are a really big work. Also namespacing PR2 is the biggest version of this problem because it has many many packages for namespacing. I'll write small tutorial for how to namespace robots and doing navigation with them later. But You can follow this sequence;
First look at urdf for tf. Joints, frames must be unic, secondly group your .launch files with <group ns="robot_name"></group> tag. Then look at the topics, which one is not connected? Which one is not published? rosrun rqt_graph rqt_graph is really helpful for this job. Look at rqt_graph for understanding it. Then Try to remap them.
I'm currently running navigation stack with multiple robots in gazebo wtihout editing sources. Also if you have custom packages, You may need to rename some frames etc.
And I suggest, please don't do this with PR2 :)
I'm running one common map_server and common /map topic. But amcl, move_base... nodes are in their robot's namespace: for ex: /robot1/amcl , /robot2/amcl. For doing this, You must enter robot special parameters in your launch file. For example; There is a parameter in global_costmap;
May you be following a wrong approach? Controlling a simulated robot and a real robot at the same time looks really weird...
May you be rather interested in using rviz? to "simulate or introspect" what is happening in the real world with a virtual representation?
Asked: 2016-06-10 00:15:45 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 10 '16
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