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Right now, I'm recording the two topics using rosbag and seeing if the messages are aligned. But, I'm not sure if rosbag respects the original timestamps or gives a new timestamp based on when it received the message.
rosbag will not modify timestamp data inside the bag file. However it will publish as accurately as possible related to the receive time during the playback. Two parallel message topics are not synchronized or guarenteed in order. Going through rosbag adds another layer of complexity.
The recommended approach to synchronize parallel topics is a message_filter based synchronizer: http://wiki.ros.org/message_filters#P...
There are standard filters for ExactTime Policy as well as ApproximateTIme documented there.
Have a look at this ROS package I created that can be used to synchronize messages according to their timestamps https://github.com/nbro/bag_synchronizer. For now, it only supports TimeSynchronizer and ApproximateTimeSynchronizer and SimpleFilter, but I am planning to extend it, if there is a request.
Asked: 2017-11-03 00:33:42 -0500
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Can you clarify what timestamp you are asking about?
header.stamp of the message. I had recorded /camera/depth/image_raw and /camera/rgb/image_raw from freenect, and expected these 2 sensor_msgs/Image topics to have the same time stamp, but on checking them with rqt_bag I found that the messages were misaligned.