I would like to autonomously navigate a robot that does not have wheel encoders. I am able to build a map with the Hector slam algorithm, but I am facing an issue with publishing Odom base_link transformation. Any pointers on how to do that?
Thank you very much!
Hello @com_amjed ,
Well, that depends a lot on your robot and what you want to do. In any case, assuming that your robot does have a laser, I’d try to publish an odometry estimate from laser readings. You can find some packages that do this, ie: https://github.com/MAPIRlab/rf2o_laser_odometry
Best,