On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Danilo Tardioli <
dantard@unizar.es> wrote:
> Hello ROS users,
>
> I am announcing the release of ros_rt_wmp.
>
> The ros_rt_wmp is a ROS node capable of replicating whatever ROS topic or
> service in another computer wirelessly connected with the source without the
> need of sharing the same roscore.
>
> As an example consider a team of robots building cooperatively a map. The
> robots have to exchange their laser and pose information. However if the
> network that connect the robots is not completely connected and they can't
> use an infrastructure network (an outdoor chain network for example) there
> is no way to share data among robots using the ROS.
>
> The ros_rt_wmp allows to distribute/decentralize a complex robotics system
> in multiple computation units in a transparent form: the only requisite is
> to know which data from other robots we need in each one of them.
>
> You can found the source code
> at
https://github.com/dantard/unizar-rt-wmp-ros-pkg
> while the documentation
> at
https://github.com/dantard/unizar-rt-wmp-ros-pkg/wiki where a step by
> step tutorial is also available.
>
> The package is young (it is probable you'll fing bugs) but it seems to work
> quite well.
>
> Best regards,
> Danilo
>
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> Grupo de Robótica, Percepción y Tiempo Real
> Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A)
> Centro Universitario de la Defensa
> Zaragoza, Spain
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