sl-perception b9b866854f feat(fleet): multi-robot SLAM — map sharing + cooperative exploration (Issue #134)
New packages:
  saltybot_fleet_msgs — 4 msgs (RobotInfo, MapChunk, Frontier, FrontierArray)
                        + 2 srvs (RegisterRobot, RequestFrontier)
  saltybot_fleet      — 4 nodes + 2 launch files + config + CLI tool

Nodes:
  map_broadcaster_node  — zlib-compress local OccupancyGrid → /fleet/maps @ 1Hz
                          + /fleet/robots heartbeat with battery/status
  fleet_manager_node    — robot registry, MapMerger (multi-grid SE2-aligned merge),
                          frontier aggregation, /fleet/request_frontier service,
                          heartbeat timeout + stale frontier re-assignment
  frontier_detector_node — scipy label-based frontier detection on merged map
                           → /fleet/exploration_frontiers_raw
  fleet_explorer_node   — Nav2 NavigateToPose cooperative exploration state machine:
                          IDLE→request→NAVIGATING→ARRIVED→IDLE + STALLED backoff

Supporting modules:
  map_compressor.py    — binary serialise + zlib OccupancyGrid encode/decode
  map_merger.py        — SE(2)-transform-aware multi-grid merge with conservative
                         obstacle inflation (occupied beats free on conflict)
  frontier_detector.py — numpy frontier mask + scipy connected-components + scoring
  landmark_aligner.py  — ArUco-landmark SE(2) estimation (Horn 2D least-squares)
                         to align robot map frames into common fleet_map frame

Topic layout:
  /fleet/maps                    MapChunk       per-robot compressed grids
  /fleet/robots                  RobotInfo      heartbeats + status
  /fleet/merged_map              OccupancyGrid  coordinator merged output
  /fleet/exploration_frontiers   FrontierArray  consolidated frontiers
  /fleet/status                  String (JSON)  coordinator health
  /<robot_ns>/rtabmap/map        input per robot
  /<robot_ns>/rtabmap/odom       input per robot
  /<robot_ns>/navigate_to_pose   Nav2 action per robot

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-02 09:36:17 -05:00

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Multi-robot SLAM coordination for saltybot — map sharing over ROS2 DDS multicast,
cooperative frontier-based exploration with task allocation, and RTAB-Map
multi-session map merging between fleet members.
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