Getting Started With ROS and SLAM

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Hello all,
I want to implement SLAM using ROS for a project. I am very new to these concepts. The hardware I have is a xbox Kinect. I need to learn it as fast as possible…Can you please help me out in figuring out how to implement it using Kinect.

Thank you.

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Hi Ractim.

Here you can find very easy instruction about how to fake 2D laser scan from xbox kinect depth sensor. If you want to do it by yourself use pointcloud_to_laserscan. When you get laserscan you can follow ROS tutrial #6 from our website. In case of any problem feel free to ask about everything.

Regards,
Hubert.

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If you want to learn ROS navigation really fast then you can do the online course ROS Navigation in 5 days, where you learn all you need to do navigation with ROS and a wheeled robot and a sensor.

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