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Random Movement while avoiding obstacles

asked 2022-01-24 12:01:23 -0500

MiPlayer
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updated 2022-01-24 12:58:48 -0500

Hello. I am fairly new to ROS and I am wondering if there is a way for me to make a robot move randomly. I currently have a rplidara1 and tracking camera for Odom, which can perform mapping and navigation. The robot just needs to move a few feet in any direction while avoiding obstacles repeatedly (without a map). I am wondering how to go about doing this.

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The link you've provided doesn't seem to be clickable (probably due to a mismatch of brackets).

cst0 ( 2022-01-24 12:20:53 -0500 )edit

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answered 2022-01-24 12:24:48 -0500

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Here's what I would do:

Subscribe to the local costmap topic being generated by your obstacle avoidance stack
Get the range of points within this local costmap
Pick an x value and a y value at random between these points
Check if that point is marked as 'clear' by the costmap
If it is, go there
If it isn't, pick a new point

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Ok, thanks. I will look into it and update here.

MiPlayer ( 2022-01-24 22:25:45 -0500 )edit

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