Car not moving in sim

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Car not moving in sim

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 2 comments

Is the car suppose to move in the rviz simulation? When I try controlling the car with the WASD, I don't see the car move. However, when I do a rostopic echo on /vesc/odom, I can see the position change accordingly. Also the car initial position is way outside the map, not like the one in the image for the tutorial.

Answer 1 · 2019-10-09T20:59:04.000Z

Did you make sure to update the initial pose to a place in bounds? At startup, the car is placed at (0, 0) in the map (which is out of bounds).

Answer 2 · 2019-10-10T14:22:24.000Z

Ah I see. Once I initialized the car inbound everything worked. Adding details on that in the tutorial would be beneficial I believe. Thank you!