Controlling robot for navigation from kinect

[adilbonzi]

Hi Mathieu,

I wanted to ask a question on what nodes to run in order to control the robot from kinect mapping. Like, i want to navigate a robot to avoid any obstacles. Most of the tutorials on ros wiki, are with turtlebot.
So, is there any way to control another robot using 3D mapping with kinect only?

[matlabbe]

Hi,

Yes, it can work with any robots. See this tutorial to setup your robot for navigation: http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup

rtabmap_ros will provide mapping/localization and move_base will provide control commands (cmd_vel). Your robot must be TF ready (all sensor frames according to fixed frame /base_link) and has a base controller (which would subscribe to velocity commands sent by move_base).

Most examples use Turtlebot because it is a good example of robot setup.

cheers,
Mathieu