TF Setting for Hector mapping (roll/pitch angle)

<param name="pub_map_odom_transform" value="true"/>
<param name="map_frame" value="map" />
<param name="base_frame" value="base_frame" />
<param name="odom_frame" value="base_frame" />

We also use Hector on UAVs (Octocopters, result video here). The our default Launch configuration is below:

<launch>
<node pkg="hector_mapping" type="hector_mapping" name="hector_mapping" output="screen">
<param name="base_frame" value="base_stabilized" />
<param name="odom_frame" value="base_stabilized"/>
<param name="output_timing" value="false"/>
<param name="use_tf_scan_transformation" value="true"/>
<param name="use_tf_pose_start_estimate" value="false"/>
<param name="scan_topic" value="scan"/>
<!-- Map size / start point -->
<param name="map_resolution" value="0.025"/>
<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="-2.5" />
<param name="laser_z_max_value" value="3.5" />
<!-- 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" />
<param name="pub_map_odom_transform" value="true"/>
<!--
<param name="pub_drawings" value="true"/>
<param name="pub_debug_output" value="true"/>
-->
</node>
<param name="hector_mapping/pub_map_odom_transform" value="true"/>
<include file="$(find hector_geotiff)/launch/geotiff_mapper.launch" />
</launch>

Hope this solves your issues.

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I've set the setting as above but i've got the result as this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbPJkq8Wdg&feature=youtu.be . I was tested out with all the processing thing put on the platform at the stationary point but move in large angle and turning which is as in video... the axis in the rviz drifted around and sometime it move out of the grid..then on the terminal it shown "search angle too large"..so that it make the map not accurate at all.. can you suggest any idea to fix the problem? (Thanks for your help :D really appreciate it)

jas ( 2012-07-01 19:43:17 -0600 )edit

Ok, i see. First of all, the radical movements you are performing in the video are literally extreme and so i do not wonder that the search angle is to large. Just think about a robot which is performing such movements, most likely this robot will get sick and mad ;-)

tlinder ( 2012-07-01 20:39:27 -0600 )edit

But back to the problem. If a robot needs to perform so fast movements it needs to get also its sensor data fast and precise. Hector and the Hokuyo updated with ca. 30-50 Hz wich is enough for standard UAV movemenst. If the robot needs to move faster you may need a faster scanner or

tlinder ( 2012-07-01 20:44:53 -0600 )edit

more orthogonal data, i.e. sensor data about your movement from a different source. In cases of UAVs but also UGVs Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are one of such sensors. The IMU then is in minimum giving you a orientation estimation. Hector can be feed with such data as a odomentry.

tlinder ( 2012-07-01 20:50:36 -0600 )edit

Thanks for your information.... i know that it move a bit too fast :D haha but just to say that we are gonna to put it on the UAV, we afraid that it will be too sensitive that it drift outside of the grid....

jas ( 2012-07-01 21:03:16 -0600 )edit

sorry to bother you again..just now i'm tested with the resonable speed which we think UAV might behave with handhold...as shown in this video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlrnUQAEn8 but the drifting of the axis is as sensitive as usual,

jas ( 2012-07-01 23:55:59 -0600 )edit

i have no idea to solve it...any suggestion which we could stablized the axis...(Thanks for you help :D)

jas ( 2012-07-02 00:14:55 -0600 )edit

Ok is see pleas can you make a bag file and run Hector on a regular PC. I have the feeling that your embedded PC which you are using is not really pulling the full 40 Hz of the scanner or is to slow to deal with them. Is there any other process running? If you make the bag available i may test it.

tlinder ( 2012-07-02 03:39:56 -0600 )edit

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