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Nav2 Docking: Option for Non-Charging Dock Plugin Types #4405

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SteveMacenski opened this issue Jun 8, 2024 · 4 comments
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Nav2 Docking: Option for Non-Charging Dock Plugin Types #4405

SteveMacenski opened this issue Jun 8, 2024 · 4 comments
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If you want to "dock" with a non-charging type, we can easily add in a new plugin type for a non-charging docking maneuver. For example: docking with a convey belt or another robot.

It should be straight forward: have a non-charging dock plugin type and adjust the logic that if we're a non-charging dock to bypass certain parts of the process. We just rely more heavily on user-defined plugin for the specific situation to understand when "done" is done (though the tolerance is a pretty good and reliable metric as we found in docking even without the joint state motor efforts)

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redvinaa commented Jul 1, 2024

Summing up open-navigation/opennav_docking#44:
How to implement a scenario where a robot has to dock both forward and backward (for example, forward to a table / conveyor belt, and backward to actually charge)?
An option is to run two docking_server instances.

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^ Or have the option for reversing to be a feature of the dock not of the system like we have today. Food for thought.

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In progress - should have a PR opened this week

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#4627 implements

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