timbokz / caltech_samaritan

🚁〰️ Drone SLAM project for Caltech's ME 134 Autonomy class.

caltech_samaritan's Issues

One of lidar is not working

I have 2 lidars, one low and one high. But the high lidar is not working for detecting the obstacle, whose height is 2.2 meters. Another is 0.2 m.

Using the package with IRIS drone in a custom gazebo environment

Is it possible to use the Iris drone in gazebo and implement this method in a custom gazebo environment?

Running in ROS Melodic Ubuntu 18.04

Hi,

Is there a way we can run this repo on ROS Melodic Ubuntu 18.04 setup? or anyone had tried please let me know. Thanks

Error when launching project

Hello,

I get the following error when running 'roslaunch caltech_samaritan full_indoors.launch'. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Sean

xacro: Traditional processing is deprecated. Switch to --inorder processing!
To check for compatibility of your document, use option --check-order.
For more infos, see http://wiki.ros.org/xacro#Processing_Order
redefining global property: pi
when processing file: /home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_description/urdf/quadrotor_with_kinect.gazebo.xacro
unknown macro name: xacro:inertial_sphere None None
when instantiating macro: kinect_camera_model (/home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_description/urdf/quadrotor_with_kinect.gazebo.xacro)
instantiated from: kinect_camera (/home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_description/urdf/quadrotor_with_kinect.gazebo.xacro)
in file: /home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_description/urdf/quadrotor_with_kinect.gazebo.xacro
while processing /home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_gazebo/launch/spawn_quadrotor_with_kinect.launch:
while processing /home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_gazebo/launch/spawn_quadrotor.launch:
Invalid tag: Cannot load command parameter [robot_description]: command [/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/xacro/xacro '/home/sean/hector_quadrotor_tutorial/src/hector_quadrotor/hector_quadrotor_description/urdf/quadrotor_with_kinect.gazebo.xacro' base_link_frame:=/base_link world_frame:=world] returned with code [2].

Param xml is
The traceback for the exception was written to the log file