Simultaneous Autonomous Exploration and Mapping in Gazebo
Using Gazebo, I place a husky robot in a completely unknown environment (currently the willowgarage map). My basic objective is to make the husky autonomously navigate itself through the entire world with the sole aim of mapping the entire area. Basically, if anyone could tell me how to combine an exploration algorithm such as frontier_exploration with gmapping, I would greatly appreciate it. Most tutorials out there use teleoperation, which really defeats the purpose I'm trying to achieve.
Thank You!
Hi!
Did you manage to do it?
Hello Nikhil, I moved forward with the Nav2d package by Sebastien mentioned in the answer below. I highly recommend it, it's a great place to start.