Resetting odometry(pose) information
Hello,
I am conducting an experiment that compares different navigation algorithms for a short distance (<4~5m) using a turtlebot, by plotting the sequences of locations contained in the odom messages. Since I am concerned with only short distances, I am not willing to use any localization to estimate the precise pose(location) of the robot.
The problem is that because I am relying only on odometry information (i.e. how much wheels have turned) to estimate the pose of the robot, odometry messages contain different pose information even for a same location. As a result, everytime I switch between navigation algorithms I need to turn off and turn on the turtlebot package in order to start at (0,0).
Is there a way to manually set the pose of the robot without turning on and off the turtlebot package? I am using turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch.
Thank you in advance.
