Generating empty map for outdoor navigation
I want to develop autonomous outdoor navigation for my robot. So far I have been able to configure localisation (IMU +GPS) using robot_localization
package and I have the followed the ROS navigation stack to setup the global/local planner. The only element remaining is the map. Because the robot is going to operate on an open field, I want to implement a blank map so that the robot can roam freely. Does anyone know how to generate an empty occupancy grid map so that I use map_server
to launch it with move_base
? I want to eventually spawn multiple robots too.
Thanks :)