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skasperski / navigation_2d

ROS nodes to navigate a mobile robot in a planar environment
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What kind of vehicles is the path planning written for? #22

Closed glebos closed 8 years ago

glebos commented 8 years ago

Hi, I'm wondering if the navigation and path planning is applicable for a front steering chassis with higher turn radius? Is this navigation package written for a special kind of robot or is it universal? Kind regards.

skasperski commented 8 years ago

The path planning in nav2d_navigator is currently suited for holonomic robots with a nearly circular footprint only. It uses a simple grid-based shortest path algorithm and follows this path as good as possible. For a front steering chassis you need a more sophisticated path planner like sbpl.

glebos commented 8 years ago

Ok, thank you for the answer.