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HI Everyone,
The robot platform I am working on has 6 cameras onboard with different views. The Coms system only has the bandwidth for one of these views, what is the best (quickest/easiest) way to select one of the streams and publish it as a single topic.
I assume using the image transport system would be a good place to start?
Regards, Nick
Does your robot have onboard processing running? Is the 'Coms system' a bridge between the system on on the robot and your 'base station'? If so, topic_mux could help here.
There is an Intel NUC running as the main processor, so plenty of processing power. You are right, I didn't explain the situation very well. The robot is teleoperated over a non-ROS comumincation link to the base station. It seems like topic_mux is perfect for my needs, thank you very much
Do realise that the NUC will then subscribe to all 6 cameras, but only republish one topic, that your base station node(s) will subscribe to. Depending on what sort of cameras these are, that could be very wasteful of cpu resources. Be sure to look at the lazy parameter.
Asked: 2018-01-31 18:18:09 -0500
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That seems like a good answer to me, @gvdhoorn.