Pioneer 3DX strange sonar behavior
Hi,
I'm doing experiments with the frontal sonar ring present in the Pioneer 3DX using ROSARIA with ROS Fuerte. However, the output from the array wasn't what I expected. The sonar readings often return the maximum range of the sonar, even though the wall is clearly not so far away. I made a video where is possible to compare the sonar readings with an LFR in my campus corridors. Also, I have uploaded a photo of the corridor to give a general overview of the scenario.
Yellow dots are the sonar readings (pointcloud published by ROSARIA), red dots are LFR scans and the green dots can be ignored.
I've tried both ROSARIA and the p2os drivers. Both gave me the same output. I also tried it with two more pioneers available in my lab, but they gave me the same results. Is there an hardware issue with the p3dx sonars? Does anyone know if changing the frequency of the sonar readings solves this issue?
Best regards,
João Santos
I have worked with ARIA libraries, and have no problems with sonars... so I dont think this could be a hardware issue.
Check the max range of sonar in the code. Just to confirm whether sonar is working fine try getting some obstacle very close to sonar and see whether it detects it and slowly move it away from robot to get some rough estimate of range of sonar.