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I don't see any problems with your plan. It appears sound.

Using ROS rather that starting from scratch should get your rovers up and running quickly and easily. They won't be as high performing as they could, though. So there is that tradeoff. For many applications, it is a good tradeoff, though.

Have fun!

I don't see any problems with your plan. It appears sound.

One issue you might run into, though, is bandwidth scaling issues when adding robots to the same wireless network. If each robot is sending decent quality live video at a decent rate, for example, there may not be enough bandwidth for everyone.

Using ROS rather that starting from scratch should get your rovers up and running quickly and easily. They won't be as high performing as they could, though. So there is that tradeoff. For many applications, it is a good tradeoff, though.

Have fun!