Navigate TurtleBot3

TurtleBot3 Burger Navigation

Before proceeding, make sure you have the webots_ros2 package installed — Getting Started.

In this tutorial, we want to show you how to navigate TurtleBot3 Burger in Webots simulation. You will see that Webots uses a standard ROS2 interface that can be used with the TurtleBot3 Navigation2 package without modifications.

Install `turtlebot3_navigation2` Package for ROS2

sudo apt install ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-turtlebot3-navigation2

or compile the package from source

To compile the turtlebot3_navigation2 package do the following:

source /opt/ros/${ROS_DISTRO}/local_setup.bash

# Retrieve the sources
cd /path/to/ros2_ws
git clone -b ${ROS_DISTRO}-devel https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3.git src/turtlebot3

# Check dependencies
rosdep update
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro ${ROS_DISTRO}

# Building packages
colcon build --packages-up-to turtlebot3_navigation2
source install/local_setup.bash

Run Webots and Navigation2

Once the turtlebot3_navigation2 package is ready you can launch a Webots simulation:

ros2 launch webots_ros2_turtlebot robot_launch.py

In the second terminal, launch Navigation2 as:

export TURTLEBOT3_MODEL='burger'
ros2 launch turtlebot3_navigation2 navigation2.launch.py \
    use_sim_time:=true \
    map:=$(ros2 pkg prefix webots_ros2_turtlebot --share)/resource/turtlebot3_burger_example_map.yaml

The command will initialize the Navigation2 package and open RVIz2. Make sure you set the initial pose by clicking 2D Pose Estimate button in RViz2 or by executing the following command:

ros2 topic pub --once /initialpose geometry_msgs/msg/PoseWithCovarianceStamped '{
    "header": { "frame_id": "map" },
    "pose": {
        "pose": {
            "position": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0 },
            "orientation": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0, "w": 1.0 }
        }
    }
}'

Now you can set a goal for the Turtlebot using the Navigation2 Goal button.