/global_costmap/footprint#

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/global_costmap/footprint Quick Facts

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Message type

geometry_msgs/msg/Polygon

Direction

➡️ you normally subscribe to this topic.

Robot Footprint used by the Planner (Global Planner) and for the creation of the inflation layer

Quick snippets#

Check the publication rate#
$ ros2 topic hz /global_costmap/footprint
Display the data published on the topic#
$ ros2 topic echo /global_costmap/footprint

How to use in your code#

Subscribe to the topic using Python#
 1#!/usr/bin/env python
 2
 3import rclpy
 4from rclpy.node import Node
 5
 6from geometry_msgs.msg import Polygon
 7
 8
 9class FootprintSubscriber(Node):
10
11    def __init__(self):
12        super().__init__('global_costmap_footprint_subscriber')
13        self.subscription = self.create_subscription(
14            Polygon,
15            '/global_costmap/footprint',
16            self.listener_callback,
17            10)
18
19    def listener_callback(self, msg):
20        # see https://docs.ros2.org/latest/api/geometry_msgs/msg/Polygon.html
21        # for the msg structure
22        self.get_logger().info('I heard: "%s"' % msg.data)
23
24
25if __name__ == '__main__':
26    rclpy.init(args=args)
27
28    subscriber = FootprintSubscriber()
29
30    rclpy.spin(subscriber)
31
32    rclpy.shutdown()