A number of 2D waypoints will be predefined in ROS based robots to navigate to the destination avoiding obstacles

2D waypoints will be predefined in ROS based robots to navigate to the destination avoiding obstacles.

A package that will buffer move_base goals until instructed to navigate to all waypoints in sequence.

follow_waypoints

Installation

Install the binaries needed for the package.

sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-follow-waypoints

New features not documented on wiki:

The code can be run in this way:

rosrun follow_waypoints follow_waypoints.py

A wait_duration parameter. This sets wait duration in between waypoints. The default value is set to 0.0 sec.