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.. Copyright 2016 The Cartographer Authors
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Cartographer ROS Integration
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`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=${ROS_DISTRO} -y
# Build and install.
catkin_make_isolated --install --use-ninja
source install_isolated/setup.bash
Running the demo
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Now that Cartographer and Cartographer's ROS integration are installed,
download the example bags, 2D and 3D backpack collections of the `Deutsches
Museum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum>`_, to a known location,
in this case ``~/Downloads``, and use ``roslaunch`` to bring up the demo:
.. code-block:: bash
# Download the 2D backpack example bag.
wget -P ~/Downloads https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/bags/backpack_2d/cartographer_paper_deutsches_museum.bag
# Launch the 2D backpack demo.
roslaunch cartographer_ros demo_backpack_2d.launch bag_filename:=${HOME}/Downloads/cartographer_paper_deutsches_museum.bag
# Download the 3D backpack example bag.
wget -P ~/Downloads https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/bags/backpack_3d/cartographer_3d_deutsches_museum.bag
# Launch the 3D backpack demo.
roslaunch cartographer_ros demo_backpack_3d.launch bag_filename:=${HOME}/Downloads/cartographer_3d_deutsches_museum.bag
# Download the Revo LDS example bag.
wget -P ~/Downloads https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/bags/revo_lds/cartographer_paper_revo_lds.bag
# Launch the Revo LDS demo.
roslaunch cartographer_ros demo_revo_lds.launch bag_filename:=${HOME}/Downloads/cartographer_paper_revo_lds.bag
# Download the PR2 example bag.
wget -P ~/Downloads https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/bags/pr2/2011-09-15-08-32-46.bag
# Launch the PR2 demo.
roslaunch cartographer_ros demo_pr2.launch bag_filename:=${HOME}/Downloads/2011-09-15-08-32-46.bag
The launch files will bring up ``roscore`` and ``rviz`` automatically.