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>
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<package format="3">
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<name>saltybot_fleet_msgs</name>
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<version>0.1.0</version>
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<description>ROS2 message and service definitions for saltybot multi-robot fleet coordination</description>
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<maintainer email="seb@vayrette.com">seb</maintainer>
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<license>MIT</license>
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<buildtool_depend>ament_cmake</buildtool_depend>
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<build_depend>rosidl_default_generators</build_depend>
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<exec_depend>rosidl_default_runtime</exec_depend>
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<member_of_group>rosidl_interface_packages</member_of_group>
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<depend>std_msgs</depend>
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<depend>nav_msgs</depend>
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<depend>geometry_msgs</depend>
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<depend>builtin_interfaces</depend>
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<export>
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<build_type>ament_cmake</build_type>
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</export>
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</package>
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