March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
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The robot's footprint
This shows the footprint of the robot; in our case, the robot has a footprint, which has a width of 0.4 meters and a height of 0.4 meters. Remember that this parameter is configured in the costmap_common_params file. This dimension is important because the navigation stack will move the robot in a safe mode using the values configured before:
- Topic: local_costmap/robot_footprint
- Type: geometry_msgs/Polygon