Environment: ubuntu20.04, dual system, ros: noetic
introduced how to use cartographer to build a map in this article.
Today I will introduce how to use hector to build a lidar map. The steps are as follows:
(1) Install the corresponding package of hector_mapping: (in workspace)
sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-hector-slam
(2) Open rviz
roslaunch rplidar_ros view_rplidar.launch
(3) Create a new slam.launch file in rplidar_ros
<launch>
<node pkg="hector_mapping" type="hector_mapping" name="hector_mapping" output="screen">
<!-- Frame names -->
<param name="pub_map_odom_transform" value="true"/>
<param name="map_frame" value="map" />
<param name="base_frame" value="base_link" />
<param name="odom_frame" value="base_link" />
<!-- Tf use -->
<param name="use_tf_scan_transformation" value="true"/>
<param name="use_tf_pose_start_estimate" value="false"/>
<!-- Map size / start point -->
<param name="map_resolution" value="0.05"/>
<param name="map_size" value="2048"/>
<param name="map_start_x" value="0.5"/>
<param name="map_start_y" value="0.5" />
<param name="laser_z_min_value" value = "-1.0" />
<param name="laser_z_max_value" value = "1.0" />
<param name="map_multi_res_levels" value="2" />
<param name="map_pub_period" value="2" />
<param name="laser_min_dist" value="0.4" />
<param name="laser_max_dist" value="5.5" />
<param name="output_timing" value="false" />
<param name="pub_map_scanmatch_transform" value="true" />
<!--<param name="tf_map_scanmatch_transform_frame_name" value="scanmatcher_frame" />-->
<!-- Map update parameters -->
<param name="update_factor_free" value="0.4"/>
<param name="update_factor_occupied" value="0.7" />
<param name="map_update_distance_thresh" value="0.2"/>
<param name="map_update_angle_thresh" value="0.06" />
<!-- Advertising config -->
<param name="advertise_map_service" value="true"/>
<param name="scan_subscriber_queue_size" value="5"/>
<param name="scan_topic" value="scan"/>
</node>
<node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="base_to_laser_broadcaster" args="0 0 0 0 0 0 /base_link /laser 100"/>
<node pkg="rviz" type="rviz" name="rviz"
args="-d $(find hector_slam_launch)/rviz_cfg/mapping_demo.rviz"/>
</launch>
Save, pay attention to the directory address
(4) open slam
roslaunch rplidar_ros slam.launch
(5) To save the map, first, you need to install the map_server package
sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-map-server
Then, save the graph
rosrun map_server map_saver -f ~/my_map
(saved in the my_map directory) and completed the radar test, slam map building, saving and other work.