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How can I track distance traveled and Velocity of the robot?

asked 2012-07-30 09:40:22 -0500

IFLORbot
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I want to use the distance traveled and the avg velocity for a fitness evaluation for my robot. I can't find that information anywhere, though. Does anybody know of a package that publishes this information? I was hoping it was going to be part of move_base

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What kinda robot are we talking about here?

David Lu ( 2012-07-30 09:49:19 -0500 )edit

The Turtlebot.

IFLORbot ( 2012-07-30 10:13:21 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-07-30 09:50:44 -0500

David Lu

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That information is both in the transforms and odometry (http://ros.org/doc/api/nav_msgs/html/msg/Odometry.html)

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Yeah, that's what I thought. I was really hoping for something where I wouldn't have to keep track of position and twist, but if I must, I must. Linear twist is going to correspond to velocity, right?

IFLORbot ( 2012-07-30 10:15:21 -0500 )edit

The current forward velocity is twist.twist.linear.x.To get distance you can integrate that over time, or sum the Euclidean distance from each previous position.

joq ( 2012-07-31 14:34:23 -0500 )edit

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