IEEE-RAS-SIGHT-Humanitarian-Robotics-Automation-Technology-Challenge

ROS Nodes for Locomotion, Obstacle Avoidance and Mine Detection

  • Unzip the "hratc2017_workspace" code folder to ~/hratc2017_workspace/src/
  • The instructions below assume you have installed the HRATC 2017 code/simulator at ~/hratc2017_workspace/src
  • Procedure to compile and run
    • Open move_base.launch via any text editor and please change path variable in lines (7,8,9,10,11) as per your directory
    • Open terminal and run the following commands
      • cd ~/hratc2017_workspace
      • catkin_make
    • roslaunch controller mine_detection.launch
  • Components Used
    • The laser scanner, metal detectors, gps, imu is used.
  • Modules Implemented
    • A custom holonomic proportional control for p3at
    • Waypoint Generation in Lawn Mover Pattern
    • Land-Mine Detection and Avoidance
  • Things to be done and tweaked in future
    • A star for Obstacle Avoidance where GPS Coordinates are given
    • Tangent Bug for new obstacles