But note that we don't use sonars much (if at all).  The SLAM and
localization pieces (gmapping, karto, and amcl) are very
laser-centric, and will not work well with sonar data.

	brian.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Kevin Watts <watts@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> This might be a good starting point:
>
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup
>
> Kevin
>
> 2010/8/23 Björn Giesler <bjoern@giesler.de>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a total ROS newbie but have been reading the ROS wiki for hours now. I
>> have a mobile platform with differential drive, odometry and sonars and
>> would like to use ROS to make it autonomous (i.e. build a grid map using the
>> sonars and odometry and maybe a simple exploration strategy, then navigate
>> on that map). Is there a simple tutorial like "how to use ROS on your
>> robot"? I haven't found anything like this and find this all very confusing
>> :-)
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Björn
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