Could use some guidance on how to navigate while avoiding obstacles
I have a physical robot that needs to navigate from its current location A to some point B defined by a GPS coord while avoiding all physical obstacles.
The robot is equipped with a GPS of its own and has a LIDAR. Just not sure how to approach this.
The LIDAR has limited range so the robot can't see very far, this can cause it to get stuck in certain situations. If the robot was making a map of the environment as it went along, something like SLAM, then this could be avoided.
I'm just not sure how I can do SLAM while also navigating to a specific goal while also doing obstacle avoidance.
I looked at this tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/cob_tutorials/Tut... but didn't learn from it.