Only released in EOL distros:  

Package Summary

Autonomous Exploration package for a Turtulebot equiped with RGBD Sensor(Kinect, Xtion)

turtlebot_exploration_icon.png

What is it ?

This is an ROS implementation of infomation-theoretic exploration using turtlebot with a RGBD camera (e.g. Kinect). It is designed for autonomous mapping of indoor office-like environments (flat terrain). All the computation is performed on the turtlebot laptop and intermediate results can be viewed from remote PC. The output consist of both 2D and 3D Octomap (.ot) file and saved on the turtlebot laptop.

Papers

If you find the package useful, please consider citing the following papers:

@inproceedings{bai2016information,
  title={Information-theoretic exploration with Bayesian optimization},
  author={Bai, Shi and Wang, Jinkun and Chen, Fanfei and Englot, Brendan},
  booktitle={Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
  pages={1816--1822},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{bai2015inference,
  title={Inference-Enabled Information-Theoretic Exploration of Continuous Action Spaces},
  author={Bai, S. and Wang, J. and Doherty, K. and Englot, B.},
  booktitle={International Symposium of Robotics Research},
  year={2015}
}

Download and Install

Dependencies

Install octomap_ros and rviz plugins.

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-octomap*

from source

Please download the source code from:

git clone https://github.com/RobustFieldAutonomyLab/turtlebot_exploration_3d.git

then

catkin_make

binary form

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-turtlebot-exploration-3d

Setup

Please follow the turtlebot network configuration to setup network between turtlebot and remote PC.

Run

From turtlebot laptop

$ roslaunch turtlebot_exploration_3d minimal_explo.launch
$ roslaunch turtlebot_exploration_3d turtlebot_gmapping.launch
$ rosrun turtlebot_exploration_3d turtlebot_exploration_3d

From Remote PC

roslaunch turtlebot_exploration_3d exploration_rviz.launch

Topics

Subscribed Topics

tf (tf/StampedTransform)
  • looking for transformation between /map and /camera_rgb_frame
/camera/depth_registered/points (sensor_msgs/PointCloud2)
  • point cloud from Kinect sensor, can remap to a different topic, however have to be similar to Kinect. Otherwise need to update the sensor model in the source code.

Published Topics

octomap_3d (octomap_msgs/Octomap)
  • The octomap generated by this node, published only after each observation.

Video

A brief demo showing how it works:(video played 5X faster):

Organization

RFAL - Stevens Institute of Technology

Wiki: turtlebot_exploration_3d (last edited 2017-02-28 06:08:01 by Bona)