BirfenArge / fields2cover_ros

A ROS interface of Fields2Cover

Fields2Cover ROS

This package is an interface to ROS of the Fields2Cover library

Installation

This code has been tested with ROS noetic and melodic.

First, install ROS noetic and create a workspace (from now: catkin_ws/ ).

Under catkin_ws/ clone and compile the package as:

git clone https://github.com/Fields2Cover/Fields2Cover src/fields2cover
git clone https://github.com/Fields2Cover/fields2cover_ros src/fields2cover_ros
rosdep install -r --ignore-src -y --from-paths .
catkin_make_isolated

Running a demo

To run an interactive demo, run:

roslaunch fields2cover_ros view_field.launch

A rviz and a rqt_reconfigure windows will appear, so you can interactively modify the path created:

Citing

Please cite the following paper when using Fields2Cover for your research:

@article{Mier_Fields2Cover_An_open-source_2022,
  author = {Mier, Gonzalo and Valente, João and de Bruin, Sytze},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.07838},
  journal = {arXiv},
  title = {{Fields2Cover: An open-source coverage path planning library for unmanned agricultural vehicles}},
  year = {2022}
}  

Credits and more info

This code repository is part of the project Fields2Cover which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).