Autonomous Navigation Mobile Robot Using ROS Without Using a Pre-saved Map

In the previous lesson, we started with autonomous navigation using a pre-saved map, wrote our own code, and created the auto_nav package for our final project. In a nutshell, we

• navigated autonomously using a pre-saved map
• were introduced to autonomous navigation concepts
• ran Localization, move_base, and other navigation nodes

In this last lesson of the series of lessons on ROS tutorials, we will

• navigate autonomously without using a pre-saved map (actual SLAM)
• create the auto_nav package (part 2)

Let’s also have a summary of the whole course:

• We were introduced to ROS and its basic utilities
• We were introduced to Python and how to utilize basic functionalities
• We opened Gazebo and understood how it works
• We started working on several projects for purely kinematic and fully kinetic simulations
• We created our own navigation package

• The table of contents for the entire course.
• Download the source code for lesson 10.