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The robot loses its orientation when I run the hector mapping.

I like the hector mapping very much because it need not the odom. But some strange errors happened when I run the mapping. The robot build its map normally when it go to the corner, but it build its map at another direction when it come back. The map looked messy because of that. The log info prompt "lookupTransform baselink to laser timed out. Could not transform laser scan into baseframe". I think this is the reason of the problem. Help!! This is my launch file.

<launch>
<node pkg "hector_mapping" type="hector_mapping" name="hector_mapping" output="screen">
<!-- Frame names -->
<param name="pub_map_odom_transform" value="true"/>
<param name="map_frame" value="map" />
<param name="base_frame" value="base_link" />
<param name="odom_frame" value="base_link" />

<!-- Tf use -->
<param name="use_tf_scan_transformation" value="true"/>
<param name="use_tf_pose_start_estimate" value="false"/>

<!-- Map size / start point -->
<param name="map_resolution" value="0.05"/>
<param name="map_size" value="2048"/>
<param name="map_start_x" value="0.5"/>
<param name="map_start_y" value="0.5" />
<param name="laser_z_min_value" value = "-1.0" />
<param name="laser_z_max_value" value = "1.0" />
<param name="map_multi_res_levels" value="2" />

<param name="map_pub_period" value="2" />
<param name="laser_min_dist" value="0.4" />
<param name="laser_max_dist" value="5.5" />
<param name="output_timing" value="false" />
<param name="pub_map_scanmatch_transform" value="true" />
<!--<param name="tf_map_scanmatch_transform_frame_name" value="scanmatcher_frame" />-->

<!-- Map update parameters -->
<param name="update_factor_free" value="0.4"/>
<param name="update_factor_occupied" value="0.7" />    
<param name="map_update_distance_thresh" value="0.2"/>
<param name="map_update_angle_thresh" value="0.06" />

<!-- Advertising config --> 
<param name="advertise_map_service" value="true"/>
<param name="scan_subscriber_queue_size" value="5"/>
<param name="scan_topic" value="scan"/>
</node>

<node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="base_to_laser_broadcaster" args="0 0 0 0 0 0 /base_link /laser 100"/>

  <node pkg="rviz" type="rviz" name="rviz"
    args="-d $(find hector_slam_launch)/rviz_cfg/mapping_demo.rviz"/>

</launch>

Asked by rong888 on 2017-07-05 21:30:37 UTC

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