WATonomous / wato_monorepo

Dockerized ROS2 stack for the WATonomous Autonomous Driving Software Pipeline
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Odometry node #161

Open VishGit1234 opened 1 week ago

VishGit1234 commented 1 week ago

Odometry in local reference frame is needed for robot localization. This means using the speed and steering wheel angle information from the car to give a guess on the vehicle's position/velocity. There are numerous dynamics models that can be used for this, including bicycle and Ackermann steering. Either should work (since all we need is a guess) but Ackermann would be better. So for this task ...