Only released in EOL distros:   kinetic

Overview

This package includes a plugin to add prohibited areas to the costmap-2D. The user is able to define those areas in a YAML file in world coordinates. Prohibited ares can have three different forms:

• 1.	only a single point		1*[x,y]
  2.	a line		2*[x,y]
  3.	a polygon with n edges		n*[x,y]

The plugin reads at initializing the costmap all the parameters from the ROS-parameter server and set the costs of this areas to LETHAL.

Warning: If used in combination with a local costmap, make sure that the global-frame parameter of the local costmap coincides with global costmap's parameter. Furthermore, the global-frame should be fixed (e.g. /map and not /odom), since currently no coordinate transformations are performed internally.

Configuration

Declare the prohibition areas

To declare your prohibition areas you need to detect the coordinates in the map (e.g. with Rviz). This coordinates you can fill into a YAML file with the following structre:

prohibition_areas:
 # your first prohibited area is only a point
 - [17.09, -6.388]
 # now we define a line
 # it will become the thickness of the costmap resolution
 - [[8.33, 2.11],
    [8.26, 5.11]]
 # and last but not least a polygon with an individual number of points
 - [[-11.15, -15.614],
    [-12.35, -13.89],
    [-10.05, -12.218]]

configure your global costmap plugin

The costmap2D from ros is able to add plugins (see Costmap2D Tutorial). In step two you see how to add the YAML file to the parameters. If you're doing this in the launch file of the move base, you should load them into the namespace global_costmap/costmap_prohibition_layer. The underlayed namespace (costmap_prohibition_layer should accord with the plugin name, defined in the next step: In step three it is described how to add the plugin itself. For this plugin you have to add:

   plugins:
     # ... your own plugins     
     - {name: costmap_prohibition_layer,       type: costmap_prohibition_layer_namespace::CostmapProhibitionLayer"}