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i have an device that provides me GPS cordinates of ather boats, so i want to add them as obstacles in the gmapping map .
The solution i found :
Getting a GPS point (coordinates). Converting these points to (x,y) of my gmapping map. Creating a frame at this (x,y) Publish a scan from this frame with the same name of topic that gmapping receives.
I don't know if it is possible to add them into gmapping, but if you just want them to show up as obstacles to avoid, you could feed the GPS coordinates directly into the costmap obstacle layer.
The simplest possible way to do this that I can see would be to take the GPS coordinate of each boat, pretend that it is a laser scan point and put it into a laser scan message. Publish this on a topic and configure the costmap obstacle layer to use this as an additional observation source where observation_sources is a parameter to the obstacle layer saying which topics to listen to.
Hmm. Now that I think of it, since gmapping is listening to laser scans, it could possibly be configured to listen to this source as well.
@aksel you could have a node that takes in your scan, adds to that message some points based on your GPS coordinates and republishes the scan with the added points and use the new message as input for the gmapping node. I'm not saying you should do it like this, but you could.
Asked: 2019-05-15 05:44:08 -0500
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Last updated: May 21 '19
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