¿EKF works for lidar sensor?
Hello everyone
I am working with a differential mobile robot and lidar sensor. I am reviewing the robot_pose_ekf package and I was wondering if it is possible to implement that method with the lidar sensor?
That question is a little nonsensical - please clarify what you mean.
Also, robot_localization has taken over the role of robot_pose_ekf, it has been removed from the navigation stack from Melodic and newer in ROS1 and not ported to ROS2.
Hi Steve, I am doing a project with a turtlebot3 and a 2D lidar sensor. I need to improve the odometry of the robot and I found this method but it seems that it is only for 3D sensors.
These EKFs are used to fuse odometry information into a smoothed state estimation. Asking about how to implement fused odometry from a lidar isn't really a sensible question. You'd need to take that data and translate it first into something that has a type of odometry output to then ask the question about how to fuse multiple odometry sources together. Ex. if I were to ask about how to implement and EKF with a pointcloud, that's a similarly nonsense question because you're comparing apples and oranges.
Could using something like Visual Odometry -- which would take cloud or lidar data as input and outputs odometry estimates -- be something which could be used perhaps? Then feed that information to
robot_localization?Hi gvdhoom, I cannot use visual odometry, the robot only has 2D lidar and I cannot add another external sensor. What if the value of vo in EFK is false?