Beginner Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through a Turlebot Planning Tutorial based on costmap navigation in a Gazebo simulation environment and will make you familiar with the general planning workflow of using Move Base (Flex) in ROS.

Before you continue, make sure to have followed the Installation Instructions and you have a ROS workspace set up

mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/
catkin_make

Topics

1. Basic Navigation
   Learn how to move a robot from point a to b with Move Base Flex and RViz. Continue here.
2. Beyond the Relay
   Learn to use the Move Base Flex API directly and leave Move Base behind. Continue here.
3. Path Planning
   Learn how to plan with pose paths instead of goals for greated flexibility. Continue here
4. Parameters and Configuraton
   After getting to know a typical planning workflow, learn about parameters and configuration of Move Base Flex. Continue here

The full source code can be found here.