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The LiDAR on turtlebot3 is detecting fake obstacles where there is free space. I am unsure as to what is happening. I have no idea if this is a hardware issue or something else. Here is a screen shot of what my robot senses in Rviz and what is actually going on in the Real World. As clearly seen, there is free space around the robot yet it detects obstacles all around it.
From the edges of the walls in that photo, it looks to me like you've got some pretty messy data coming in. That messy data might be due to to the LIDAR: sensor noise causing obstacles to be seen where there are none. Or, that messy data might be the odometry: if the odometry stack makes the turtlebot think that it's in the wrong place, it might be seeing a valid obstacle and projecting it to the wrong location.
In either case, it looks like you'd benefit from some filtering. For your LIDAR, check out the laser filters package. For your odometry, the more data sources you can take advantage of the better. Combining them alongside some filtering using some form of a kalman filter would help, too (perhaps via this package?).
You could clone it but you don't need to (it should be in the ROS repositories which is probably easier): you'll just need to be able to run rosrun laser_filters scan_to_scan_filter_chain.
The way the package works is, you specify a 'filter chain' by picking out what filters you'd like to run, and you outline them and their parameters in a yaml file. You provide that yaml file to the node via the rosparam server (which can be done in a launch file or manually, both options are outlined on the wiki). My advice would be to start with one of the existing configurations just for the sake of getting it working, and then modifying the yaml file to meet your needs by copying in and modifying other filters as provided on the wiki.
@cst0 okay so I just installed the package, where do I make the .yaml file specifically? DO I need to do it in the package itself? ROS generally confuses me alot and reading the wikis doesn't help much. I've been having a very difficult time figuring out how to use plugins.
Asked: 2022-01-17 20:42:17 -0500
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Last updated: Jan 17 '22
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