[ros-users] canonical way to use multiple laser scanners
Aaron Solochek
aarons-ros at aberrant.org
Sun Mar 6 15:53:13 UTC 2011
Yeah, I saw that reply, thank you.
Joining efforts seems like a good plan, but let me get back to you on monday
after I have a chance to look at the slam_gmapping code.
Thanks again.
-Aaron
On 03/05/2011 03:21 PM, Ivan Dryanovski wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> I just replied to your question in answers.ros.org. I suggested two
> things, and it looks like we are thinking along the same lines.
>
> I strongly agree that the best way to do this is to modify
> slam-gmapping to accept point clouds. The benefiits of this are many:
> - doing slam with mutliple lasers
> - doing slam with lasers with varying tilt/roll, for example, on quadrotors
> - doing slam with non-laser sensors directly (kinect)
>
> In my research, I have had to hack slam-gmapping to go around these
> limitations. If you are interested, perhaps we should join efforts,
> and maybe get the gmapping- developers on board, to rewrite the
> gmapping wrapper to provide for PointClouf input efficiently.
>
> Ivan
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