Class RotateToGoalCritic

Inheritance Relationships

Base Type

  • public dwb_core::TrajectoryCritic

Class Documentation

class RotateToGoalCritic : public dwb_core::TrajectoryCritic

Forces the commanded trajectories to only be rotations if within a certain distance window.

This used to be built in to the DWA Local Planner as the LatchedStopRotate controller, but has been moved to a critic for consistency.

The critic has three distinct phases. 1) If the current pose is outside xy_goal_tolerance LINEAR distance from the goal pose, this critic will just return score 0.0. 2) If within the xy_goal_tolerance and the robot is still moving with non-zero linear motion, this critic will only allow trajectories that are slower than the current speed in order to stop the robot (within the robot’s acceleration limits). The returned score will be the robot’s linear speed squared, multiplied by the slowing_factor parameter (default 5.0) added to the result of scoreRotation. 3) If within the xy_goal_tolerance and the robot has sufficiently small linear motion, this critic will score trajectories that have linear movement as invalid and score the rest based on the result of the scoreRotation method

The scoreRotation method can be overriden, but the default behavior is to return the shortest angular distance between the goal pose and a pose from the trajectory. Which pose depends on the lookahead_time parameter.

  • If the lookahead_time parameter is negative, the pose evaluated will be the last pose in the trajectory, which is the same as DWA’s behavior. This is the default.

  • Otherwise, a new pose will be projected using the dwb_local_planner::projectPose. By using a lookahead time shorter than sim_time, the critic will be less concerned about overshooting the goal yaw and thus will continue to turn faster for longer.

Public Functions

void onInit() override
virtual void reset() override
virtual bool prepare(const geometry_msgs::msg::Pose2D &pose, const nav_2d_msgs::msg::Twist2D &vel, const geometry_msgs::msg::Pose2D &goal, const nav_2d_msgs::msg::Path2D &global_plan) override
virtual double scoreTrajectory(const dwb_msgs::msg::Trajectory2D &traj) override
virtual double scoreRotation(const dwb_msgs::msg::Trajectory2D &traj)

Assuming that this is an actual rotation when near the goal, score the trajectory.

This (easily overridden) method assumes that the critic is in the third phase (as described above) and returns a numeric score for the trajectory relative to the goal yaw.

Parameters:

traj – Trajectory to score

Returns:

numeric score