RTABMAP send generated map via topic

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Hi,

Each robot can send their map to Master through /rtabmap/mapData topic. This topic contains the graph and the latest compressed data added to map (at each second). You may have to set tf_prefix parameter with a different prefix to have a unique TF tree for each robot. You would also need to start each rtabmap in their own namespace (see <group> launch tag).

You could use a map_assembler node on the Master to reconstruct the map for each robot. To merge the maps, you would have to implement your own approach if you want to do it online. Merging the maps from multiple robots can be done offline by processing back-to-back each resulting database (similar to Multi-Session tutorial).

cheers