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asked 2021-09-10 05:53:34 -0500

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Hello,

I have a rover with which I want to perform SLAM. The rover has a Kinect camera. I also have Wheel Odometry at my disposal.

It runs RTABMAP with localization:=true. For Odom I use robot_localization in which wheel odom and visual_odom is merged. If I now create a map with ocotmap in RVIZ by driving the rover once in a circle, the rover turns slower in RVIZ than in reality. The result is that a square room suddenly has 5 corners. :-D

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Some approach still seems to be fundamentally wrong. Shouldn't loop-clousure in rtabmap close the gap at the end of the circle and correct the map?

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yes, but if covariance in odometry topic is underestimated, it may reject the loop closures. Look at the terminal for possible warnings like "loop closure rejected because...".

matlabbe gravatar image matlabbe  ( 2021-09-13 10:49:12 -0500 )edit

thank you matlabbe! but what do you mean with covariance in odometry? do you mean the process_noise_covariance and initial_estimate_covariance? If yes, how can I adjust it?

masterkey gravatar image masterkey  ( 2021-10-11 14:26:44 -0500 )edit

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answered 2021-10-11 14:24:29 -0500

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I already found out that I have to set the localization mode to false first.

It still does not work. I get the error messages in rtabmap:

[ INFO] [1633977903.070727874]: Odom: quality=337, std dev=0.015768m|0.068844rad, update time=0.223289s
[ INFO] [1633977903.289025833]: rtabmap (113): Rate=1.00s, Limit=0.000s, Conversion=0.0021s, RTAB-Map=0.2129s, Maps update=0.0008s pub=0.0000s (local map=6, WM=6)
[ WARN] (2021-10-11 20:45:04.121) OdometryF2M.cpp:529::computeTransform() Registration failed: "Not enough inliers 7/20 (matches=141) between -1 and 124" (guess=xyz=0.000173,-0.003361,-0.004406 rpy=-0.000072,-0.001769,0.001053)
[ WARN] (2021-10-11 20:45:04.122) OdometryF2M.cpp:290::computeTransform() Failed to find a transformation with the provided guess (xyz=0.000173,-0.003361,-0.004406 rpy=-0.000072,-0.001769,0.001053), trying again without a guess.
[ WARN] (2021-10-11 20:45:04.441) OdometryF2M.cpp:539::computeTransform() Trial with no guess succeeded!
[ INFO] [1633977904.453612297]: Odom: quality=259, std dev=0.036711m|0.077304rad, update time=0.532540s
[ INFO] [1633977904.675536318]: rtabmap (114): Rate=1.00s, Limit=0.000s, Conversion=0.0020s, RTAB-Map=0.2168s, Maps update=0.0006s pub=0.0000s (local map=6, WM=6)

My r_l ekf.yaml file looks like this:

frequency: 20
silent_tf_failure: false
sensor_timeout: 1.5
two_d_mode: true
transform_time_offset: 0.0
transform_timeout: 0.0
print_diagnostics: true
debug: false
debug_out_file: /path/to/debug/file.txt
publish_tf: true
publish_acceleration: false
permit_corrected_publication: false


map_frame: map              # Defaults to "map" if unspecified
odom_frame: odom           # Defaults to "odom" if unspecified
base_link_frame: base_link  # Defaults to "base_link" if unspecified
world_frame: odom           # Defaults to the value of odom_frame if unspecified

odom0: ackermann_odom

odom0_config: [false, false, false,
           false, false, false,
           true,  true, false,
           false, false, false,
           false, false, false]

odom0_queue_size: 2
odom0_nodelay: false
odom0_differential: false     #default false
odom0_relative: false
odom0_pose_rejection_threshold: 5
odom0_twist_rejection_threshold: 1

odom1: /rtabmap/visual_odom

odom1_config: [false, false, false,
           false, false, false,
           false, false, false,
           false, false, true,
           false, false, false]

odom1_differential: false
odom1_relative: false
odom1_queue_size: 2
odom1_pose_rejection_threshold: 2
odom1_twist_rejection_threshold: 0.2
odom1_nodelay: false

use_control: true
stamped_control: false
control_timeout: 0.2
control_config: [true, false, false, false, false, true]

acceleration_limits: [1.3, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 3.4]
deceleration_limits: [1.3, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 4.5]
acceleration_gains: [0.8, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.9]
deceleration_gains: [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0]


process_noise_covariance: [0.05, 0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     0,     0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,
                       0,    0.05, 0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     0,     0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,
                       0,    0,    0.06, 0,    0,    0,    0,     0,     0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,
                       0,    0,    0,    0.03, 0,    0,    0,     0,     0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,
                       0,    0,    0,    0,    0.03, 0,    0,     0,     0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,
                       0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0.06, 0,     0,     0,    0 ...
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That warning is only telling you that odometry did not get enough correspondences from estimation from motion, but it recovered doing global feature matching. If you have a rosbag of your trajectory (without SLAM/robot_localization started) with the corresponding launch file, it could help to see if there is a problem in sensor data.

matlabbe gravatar image matlabbe  ( 2021-10-11 15:08:37 -0500 )edit

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