Rescue Bot

This repo will contain the code for a robot that searches for and locates objects of interest in a room.

To Run

rosrun rescuebot runner.py

To run hector exploration

roscore
roslaunch rescuebot neato_simulator.launch
rviz
roslaunch rescuebot hector_exploration.launch

Now add /hector_exploration_node/global_costmap/costmap topic to rviz so you can see what hector exploration is thinking.

To adjust hector navigation parameters while it is running, open rqt_reconfigure.

rosrun rqt_reconfigure rqt_reconfigure