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skasperski / navigation_2d

ROS nodes to navigate a mobile robot in a planar environment
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Purpose of loading environmental map into tutorial4? #7

Closed mathew-kurian closed 10 years ago

mathew-kurian commented 10 years ago

Hi, I am trying to do implement a dual robot mapping on a floor at our school. This means that I have no information of the current floor and it must coordinate and map the area automatically. Would this library help do that? Or do I need to have input floormap? The goal is to somehow generate the floormap using the mapping.

Thank you.

skasperski commented 10 years ago

Yes, with the Navigator and an exploration plugin a robot can build the map autonomously. Note that in tutorials 3 and 4, the map-image is only loaded into "Stage" to provide a simulated environment. Within the ROS system, only the generated map from the mapping is available.

mathew-kurian commented 10 years ago

Thank you! That makes sense now.