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2013-06-18 10:54:30 -0500	asked a question	Local path planning with Kinect Hello, I am relatively new to ROS and I am confused a bit from the documentation. I have a robot and I want to enable it to do some local path planning (only - no global path planning - no navigation - no SLAM) within its field of view. As an example: I want to point somewhere within Kinect's field of view and the planner would compute the way including obstacle avoidance. Its sensor is Kinect (no laser scanner, no odometry) and a bunch of infrareds around it. It's a relatively simple task but I am confused of which modules do I need. All of them seem to do much more complicated things than I want. Moreover I saw that many transform the pointcloud of Kinect into a laser scan and use this for navigation purposes, but I wouldn't like to lose so much information. Is there an integrated solution? Thank you very much in advance.