<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello ros-users,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This package implements frontier exploration using an action server (explore_server), that can be controlled from rviz via explore_client, or directly from other nodes.<br>

</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/frontier_exploration" target="_blank">http://wiki.ros.org/frontier_exploration</a><br>

</div><div><a href="https://github.com/paulbovbel/frontier_exploration" target="_blank">https://github.com/paulbovbel/frontier_exploration</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

When starting out with ROS, I was frustrated that there was no (maintained) exploration package that worked solely using the core ROS APIs (i.e. navigation).<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Internally, this package contains a custom costmap_2d layer plugin that could be adapted for more complex exploration strategies.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please email or post any feedback, comments or concerns!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paul Bovbel</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:paul.bovbel@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">paul.bovbel@utoronto.ca</a></div>

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