Setting Specific Turn Angle on the PR2
I have been working with the PR2 robot for a few weeks and I've found the need to have the robot rotate in place 90 to 180 degrees clockwise and counterclockwise. I'm working in Python and looked at the teleop package, and found a Python example here. The only problem, however, is that all of these systems only set the robot's velocity, whereas I just need the robot to turn to a specific angle while it is operating (and I haven't found any guides to this end). I could implement my own listener that takes in a desired angle then uses the teleop commands along with a PID control to turn to that angle, but I was hoping there was already a method for what I'm trying to do (preferably in Python) since it seems like a basic operation most users would probably find useful.
EDIT: I also found that geometry_msgs already has a message for pose which makes me think that there is an implementation for this somewhere (or perhaps this is just how the PR2 advertises it's current pose?)
tl;dr - How do I make the robot turn to a specific angle (in the global frame) in Python?
EDIT: I've gotten the package at http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_navigation_apps and tried out the SLAM application in an empty world, and the robot goes to a random point when I set the pose to [0 0 0 0 03.14159 0]. Using the local version/however, the program gets stuck waiting for the action client to start.
move_base_client_ = actionlib.SimpleActionClient('move_base', MoveBaseAction)
move_base_client_.wait_for_server() # Gets stuck at this line using local
target = Pose(Point(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), Quaternion(0.000, 0.000, 3.14159, 0.0))
goal = MoveBaseGoal()
goal.target_pose.header.frame_id = '/map' # For local I use '/base_link'
goal.target_pose.pose = target
move_base_client_.send_goal(goal)
move_base_client_.wait_for_result(rospy.Duration(1.0))
before these I run roslaunch pr2_gazebo pr2_empty_world.launch and then either roslaunch pr2_2dnav_slam pr2_2dnav.launch or roslaunch pr2_2dnav_local pr2_2dnav.launch
