[ros-users] Interfacing to ROS from external software

Blaise Gassend blaise at willowgarage.com
Wed Feb 16 05:33:08 UTC 2011


Why not just use roscpp, and whatever ROS messages you need from your
application?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Giri Pushpanathan
<giri.pushpanathan at mdacorporation.com> wrote:
> I want to develop a piece of code that can communicate with ROS without
> using any (or minimal) ROS libraries. With Player-Stage, I used to be able
> to use open a TCP/IP connection with the player server and communicate using
> XDR format messages. What is the best way to interface with a ROS system
> from an external software?
>
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> Basically we will be receiving a ROS system from a university and it will
> run on a separate PC. We would like to build a C++ software block that can
> sit on a remote machine and send commands to and receive telemetry from the
> ROS system.
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>
> Thanks
>
> GP
>
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