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pose mismatch between RVIZ and Gazebo with AMCL

asked 2021-06-23 08:10:38 -0500

wbadry gravatar image

updated 2021-06-23 09:36:26 -0500

Hello, I am learning a ROS course with Gazebo. During applying the AMCL, I noticed that the Laser scan is off by some degrees. I read about the AMCL initial poses which are included in the launch file

<node pkg="amcl" type="amcl" name="amcl" output="screen">

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        <param name="initial_pose_x" value="0.0"/>
        <param name="initial_pose_y" value="0.0"/>
        <param name="initial_pose_a" value="0.0"/>

</node>

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Is there any way to get the difference between the two poses and apply it to stay in sync between the Gazebo and RViz? I believe this is very important to not rely on 2D pose estimate especially if Gazebo might be replaced by a real-world robot.

I looked for the AMCL topics and found amcl_pose

$ rostopic list | grep amcl
/amcl/parameter_descriptions
/amcl/parameter_updates
/amcl_pose

When I tried it out at the current rotated pose, I received "as expected" both poses and covariance of amcl

$ rostopic echo /amcl_pose
header: 
  seq: 0
  stamp: 
    secs: 4547
    nsecs: 966000000
  frame_id: "map"
pose: 
  pose: 
    position: 
      x: 0.0035147701830781273
      y: 0.014127498618076101
      z: 0.0
    orientation: 
      x: 0.0
      y: 0.0
      z: 0.003202069927745266
      w: 0.9999948733609477
  covariance: [0.2245754790525376, -0.003158366121491816, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, -0.0031583661214918124, 0.23894487468367523, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.06575617702179823]

This problem happens when I use ateleop node to rotate the robot. The initial pose at the start is not that bad

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My robot is in URDF (xacro) files for some wheels macros and the main robot structure.

All help is appreciated.

Update: I think the problem came from the default values of the odom_alpha noise parameters as I didn't add it to set it to a lower value (than the default of 0.2)

<param name="odom_alpha1" value="0.01"/>
<param name="odom_alpha2" value="0.01"/>
<param name="odom_alpha3" value="0.01"/>
<param name="odom_alpha4" value="0.01"/>
<param name="odom_alpha4" value="0.01"/>

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I am leaving it for others that may encounter the same issue. If there is any additional steps I should consider, please comment and I would always appreciate it.

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answered 2021-06-24 15:14:14 -0500

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This problem happens when I use ateleop node to rotate the robot. The initial pose at the start is not that bad

What is your update_min_a parameter? It decides the minimal rotation needed based on the odometry to trigger and update of the pose estimate from AMCL. I would probably lower it but I would not recommend setting it too low, risk having the pose estimate oscillate away off the map.

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<param name="update_min_d" value="0.2"/><param name="update_min_a" value="0.5"/>

wbadry gravatar image wbadry  ( 2021-06-24 15:55:24 -0500 )edit

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