cartographer_ros/docs/source/index.rst

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Cartographer ROS Integration
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   options
   rosapi

`Cartographer`_ is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization
and mapping `SLAM`_ across multiple platforms and sensor configurations. This
project provides Cartographer's ROS integration.

.. _Cartographer: https://github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer
.. _SLAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping

.. _getting-started:

Building & Installation
=======================

Installation has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) with ROS Indigo, but may
also work on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) with ROS Kinetic. We recommend using
`wstool <http://wiki.ros.org/wstool>`_ and
`rosdep <http://wiki.ros.org/rosdep>`_. For faster builds, we also recommend
using `Ninja <https://ninja-build.org>`_.

  .. code-block:: bash

    # Install wstool and rosdep.
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y python-wstool python-rosdep ninja-build

    # Create a new workspace in 'catkin_ws'.
    mkdir catkin_ws
    cd catkin_ws
    wstool init src

    # Merge the cartographer_ros.rosinstall file and fetch code for dependencies.
    wstool merge -t src https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlecartographer/cartographer_ros/master/cartographer_ros.rosinstall
    wstool update -t src

    # Install deb dependencies.
    rosdep update
    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro=${ROS_DISTRO} -y

    # Build and install.
    catkin_make_isolated --install --use-ninja
    source install_isolated/setup.bash

Running the demo
================

Now that Cartographer and Cartographer's ROS integration are installed,
download the example bag, a 2D backpack collection of the `Deutsches Museum
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum>`_, to a known location, in
this case ``~/Downloads``, and use ``roslaunch`` to bring up the demo:

  .. code-block:: bash

    wget -P ~/Downloads https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/bags/backpack_2d/cartographer_paper_deutsches_museum.bag
    roslaunch cartographer_ros demo_2d.launch bag_filename:=${HOME}/Downloads/cartographer_paper_deutsches_museum.bag

The launch file will bring up ``roscore`` and ``rviz`` automatically.