RGBD SLAM using kinect v2

[dragoon000320]

Hello everyone,
I'm new to robot navigation, i'm currently working on my bachelor thesis and i want to implement a navigation system for a robot using Kinect v2. I already downloaded and setup iai_kinect2 and it works fine. I want to use RTAB for navigation. But i know almost nothing about it. Could you please give me some advices where to start, maybe somebody had an experience in it. I would appreciate any help and thank you in advance.

[matlabbe]

Hi,

To start, you may try RTAB-Map for SLAM and move_base for navigation (sending goals directly to move_base instead of passing by rtabmap). The setup the most similar to yours is turtlebot. A tutorial of move_base/RTAB-Map integration for turtlebot can be found here. It is the same tutorial than the official one, with rtabmap replacing gmapping/amcl modules. For navigation, I strongly recommend to read this page.

cheers,
Mathieu