Category: Nav2
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Hydroponics Robot Part 3 – Mapping Issues Continued
Hydroponics Robot Part 3 – Mapping Issues Continued Welcome back to the third part of my series on building a hydroponics robot! In this blog post, I’ll continue discussing the mapping issues I encountered while trying to navigate my robot through narrow passages and plant rows. Increasing the global costmap Previously, I tried increasing the…
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Hydroponics Robot Part 2 – Map Resolution
In my work with hydroponics robots, I recently faced challenges related to robot localization and map resolution. After consulting with ChatGPT, I discovered that the lidar and map were not synchronizing properly due to issues with the robot’s odometry. Fortunately, I was able to resolve the issue and the robot is now able to navigate…
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Setting the initial pose using config in NAV2
While working through the articubots tutorials I have been setting my initial pose for nav2 manually using rviz2. It works but it can be a little tedious when testing changes that require frequent restarts. Luckily, there’s a small section of config in nav2_params.yaml that you can use to set your initial pose: This means that…
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Nav2 Localisation not Loading a Default Map
Hi everyone, I finally have my diffdrive robot navigating with waypoints using Nav2 and this great tutorial. However, while trying to use a saved map for localization I ran into the following error: I had the following entry in my launch file: My map was also in the correct folder and valid output from the…
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