Obstacle-Avoidance-Bot-Using-ROS

This project contains a bot simulation in Gazebo which can avoid obstacles. The robot design and other requirements can be found in this PDF. The obstacle avoid is available in both cpp and python languages. Xacro is used in the project to clean the URDF code.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository in the src folder of your catkin workspace
2. Run catkin_make
3. Go to obstacle-avoid.py and make it executable using chmod +x obstacle_avoidance.py. No need to do this step if you are using the obstacle-avoid.cpp code.
4. Open 3 Terminals
5. Run the command roslaunch Obstacle-Avoidance-Bot-Using-ROS spawn.launch.
6. In the second terminal run the command rosrun Obstacle-Avoidance-Bot-Using-ROS obstacle_avoidance.py or rosrun Obstacle-Avoidance-Bot-Using-ROS obstacle_avoidance.cpp
7. In last terminal, run the command rosrun gazebo_ros gazebo --verbose to start the robot and begin the obstacle avoidance course.
8. Add blocks in between wherever you want or you can download a world from anywhere else and spawn the bot there.

Prerequisites

• ROS
• Gazebo

Video

To-Do / Improvements

• Decrease the size/complexity of obstacle_avoidance.cpp code

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Reference

Construct YouTube Channel