Packages and Other Programs Used in Project

• ROS
• gmapping - For making maps our package could use
• TurtleBot 2 - Platform we used to test with in real life and in simulation
• RVIZ - Visualization software for our simulations

Helpful Packages

• Gaitech Turtlebot Tutorial - Good tutorial for making maps
• Creating World File From Existing YAML - Another good tutorial for making maps
• nav_2D - Good example for running simulations in RVIZ and stage simulators
• [hector_slam] - Good example of a complete, well-built, well-documented SLAM package.

References

• A* Wikipedia - Overview of A* algorithm
• Python Robotics - Good site with simple starter code in python for robots