My robot has been set up for autonomous motion using amcl & move_base from ROS navigation stack. The robot performs correctly using teleop; and the motors follow the velocity values published by move_base well enough. The problem is that, after defining the path between the robot and the goal position correctly, my robot fails to follow it (the defined path). I have uploaded a video of what the robot's simulation does in rviz here: https://youtu.be/cRTHVMGiG0I
Also, The robot driver subscribes to the rostopic navigation_velocity_smoother/raw_cmd_vel to run the motors (since values are not being published on cmd_vel topic)
Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening? (please watch the video in the provided url)
Here are my move_base parameters:
shutdown_costmaps: false
controller_frequency: 5.0 controller_patience: 3.0
planner_frequency: 1.0 planner_patience: 5.0
oscillation_timeout: 10.0 oscillation_distance: 0.8
base_local_planner: "dwa_local_planner/DWAPlannerROS"
base_global_planner: "navfn/NavfnROS" #alternatives:global_planner/GlobalPlanner
And these are the dwa_planner params:
max_vel_x: 0.5
min_vel_x: 0.0
max_vel_y: 0.0 min_vel_y: 0.0
max_trans_vel: 0.5
min_trans_vel: 0.1
trans_stopped_vel: 0.1
max_rot_vel: 5.0
min_rot_vel: 0.4
rot_stopped_vel: 0.4
acc_lim_x: 0.5 acc_lim_theta: 2.0 acc_lim_y: 0.0
yaw_goal_tolerance: 0.3
xy_goal_tolerance: 0.15
sim_time: 1.0
vx_samples: 6
vy_samples: 1
vtheta_samples: 20
path_distance_bias: 64.0
goal_distance_bias: 24.0
occdist_scale: 0.5
forward_point_distance: 0.325
stop_time_buffer: 0.2
scaling_speed: 0.25
max_scaling_factor: 0.2
oscillation_reset_dist: 0.05
publish_traj_pc : true publish_cost_grid_pc: true global_frame_id: odom
Originally posted by b2meer on ROS Answers with karma: 66 on 2016-04-27
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Original comments
Comment by mgruhler on 2016-04-28:
I can see multiple possible error sources there. (e.g. is this the map for localization? is the robot turning right when you command left? ...) please provide your configurations, maybe a video of Gazebo next to rviz, a bagfile...
Comment by b2meer on 2016-04-28:
I have added the configuration parameters for move_base and dwa_local planner in the original question. Please refer to them.