[ros-users] navigation stack goal problem

[chrisb]

Hi,
I am new to ROS and am trying to use it with a MetraLabs Scitos-G5 robot,
which is a differential drive non-holonomic robot. In particular, I am
trying to run the navigation stack. 

I have a player driver for the robot, which is a bit messy so I decided the
quickest solution to get started would be to create ros nodes that connect
to a player server running on the robot and republish the laser and sonar,
and subscribe to cmd_vel and pass it on to player server. I made these three
nodes in a package, and they seem ok. I use a static transform to publish
the transformation from laser to base. 

I eventually got it going enough to log data, and create a map with
slam_gmapping. I then set up the navigation stack following the tutorial at
http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup, and got rviz
working to show the map, the laser, the odometry etc. The map is good, the
localisation (amcl) works nicely and I can see a reasonable particle cloud
using rviz.

However, when I set a goal location the robot drives to the goal but never
stops. It goes past it and tries to get back to it, never reaching the
finished state. Is this the normal behaviour? Is there anything that I
likely missed in my player nodes - my odometry node publishes the velocities
that player reports, could this be a problem? ie. Position2d::GetXSpeed(), 
GetYSpeed() and GetYawSpeed() I'm not fully certain what velocity is
expected here - the commanded or the actual? 

Thanks in advanace!

Chris
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