[ros-users] Topic Relaying between two different ROS masters

Jan Winkler winkler at cs.uni-bremen.de
Thu Apr 2 03:55:23 UTC 2015


Hey,

It does, especially that case.
I had a look over what Moritz sent around and wasn't aware of the mulitmaster project - looks pretty advanced :). I'll reconsider using that one in the future if that works for us :).

Cheers,
Jan


> On 01.04.2015, at 21:50, Ką Mykolas via ros-users <ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
> 
> Just wondering... does it work with masters from different ROS
> versions? For example Groovy <---> Indigo.
> 
>> On 4/1/15, Moritz Tenorth via ros-users <ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> inwiefern ist das anders als http://wiki.ros.org/multimaster_fkie ?
>> 
>> ciao
>> MoritzOn Apr 1, 2015 4:27 PM, Jan Winkler via ros-users
>> <ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> In our lab, the requirement of sharing a topic between two different ROS
>>> master instances came up in different contexts.
>>> 
>>> I just wanted to let you know about the tool that was developed for that
>>> purpose:
>>> 
>>> * https://github.com/code-iai/topic_relay
>>> 
>>> It basically connects to both masters (without a priori knowledge about
>>> the topic type) and blindly forwards messages between the two ROS master
>>> instances.
>>> 
>>> I'm posting this in case anyone else runs into this situation.
>>> 
>>> NOTE: Its still pretty hacky, but works reliably for us so far. Will be
>>> cleaned up as soon as I find time to do that :).
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> Jan
>>> 
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