Mapping and navigation with turtlebot

[Ruchik]

I do no have the turtlebot but have a kinect xbox360.  I followed the following commands but the map isnt showing up:

roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch

shows this:


roslaunch rtabmap_ros demo_turtlebot_mapping.launch

shows this:


and
roslaunch rtabmap_ros demo_turtlebot_rviz.launch
shows this:


I want to to make a map from of a real indoor environment and then navigate using the turtlebot model. I have tried using rtabmap_ros with hand-held mapping. Normally the rtabmap is able to generate point cloud and the map generation works fine when just using the rtabmap gui.

[matlabbe]

Hi,

follow step 4 to use freenect instead of openni2, follow step 5 if you don't have the robot so that visual odometry is enabled and you can look at step 7 if you have these issues afterward.

cheers,
Mathieu