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A topic is "created" (and will show up when using ROS introspection tools such as rostopic) as soon as a publisher or subscriber to that topic is created within a ROS node. From the Python and C++ creating a publisher/subscriber tutorials:

C++:

ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise<std_msgs::String>("chatter", 1000);

Python:

pub = rospy.Publisher('chatter', String, queue_size=10)

A topic is "created" (and will show up when using ROS introspection tools such as rostopic) as soon as a publisher or subscriber to that topic is created within a ROS node. From the Python and C++ creating a publisher/subscriber tutorials:

C++:

ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise<std_msgs::String>("chatter", 1000);

Python:

pub = rospy.Publisher('chatter', String, queue_size=10)