Hazards Detection
The Create® 3 robot is equipped with a variety of sensors that are capable to detect hazards in the environment.
In particular you will find:
- Bumper sensor to detect front contacts.
- Cliff sensors to detect holes and steps.
- Wheel drop sensors to detect if a wheel is not touching the ground.
The hazard_detection topic
The Create® 3 robot will periodically publish on the hazard_detection ROS 21 topic a vector of all the currently detected hazards.
If the vector is empty, this means that no hazards are currently being detected.
Each element of the vector will denote a different hazard detection.
Look at the HazardDetection.msg definition in order to see how to differentiate different types of hazards.
The header field of each indivdual detection will provide all the information required to localize it.
In particular the timestamp will denote when the robot detected the hazard and the frame id will denote the location of the sensor that performed the detection.
Important
The hazard_detection topic will also contain a BACKUP_LIMIT hazard if the robot safety features are preventing it from safely moving further backwards. Look at the safety documentation for details and how to disable it.
The kidnap_status topic
By "kidnap" we denote the action of manually lifting the robot and, eventually, placing it back in a location which may be different from the original one.
The Create® 3 robot combines together different sensors data in order to determine when it's being kidnapped.
A boolean status will be periodically published on the kidnap_status topic.
The ir_intensity topic
Besides the aforementioned sensors, the Create® 3 robot is also equipped with 7 sets of IR emitters and receivers and it can use them to detect objects at close range.
The Create® 3 robot will periodically publish on the ir_intensity topic the raw intensity readings obtained from these sensors.
The message will be a vector where each element corresponds to a different sensor.
The higher the intensity value is, the closer an obstacle is to the robot.
The header field of each indivdual detection will provide all the information required to localize it.
In particular the timestamp will denote when the robot detected the hazard and the frame id will denote the location of the sensor that performed the detection.