Effective Robotics Programming with ROS - Third Edition
by Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez Perdomo, Anil Mahtani
Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization
In this chapter, we are using the Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization (AMCL) algorithm for the localization. The AMCL algorithm is a probabilistic localization system for a robot moving in 2D. This system implements the adaptive Monte Carlo Localization approach, which uses a particle filter to track the pose of a robot against a known map.
The AMCL algorithm has many configuration options that will affect the performance of localization. For more information on AMCL, please refer to the AMCL documentation at http://wiki.ros.org/amcl and also at http://www.probabilistic-robotics.org/.
The amcl node works mainly with laser scans and laser maps, but it could be extended to work with other sensor data, such as a sonar ...
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