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I am currently running a ROS package (publishing multiple topics including image topics) on multiple computers connected wirelessly using http://www.netwifiworks.com/PicoStati... . While I get pretty good frame rate on master computer, the frame rate is pretty low on the listener computer. What is the solution? Image compression/ -P
Hi there, Normally, Images such as RGB-D images are relatively large and it is not possible to transmit via a wireless network at 30Hz. You can publish some filtered images with reduced rate depending on your application, or you can do some processing on the publishing PC and publish processed data to your subscriber.
Thanks for the response. It is infact RGB images from monocular camera (1920 X 1080) and we are using a NVIDIA jetson TX2 as the master. We are currently doing some processing onboard and would like to publish the output images at about 6- 15 fps using a wireless network. Is that doable?
Well, the calculation is as follows: (1920x1080)x4x6~=47.5MB/s. For 15 fps it would be approx 118MB/s. That is just the bandwidth for the image stream, not including any messaging / protocol or API overhead. Remember that sensor_msgs/Image is in essence a raw, 32bit, uncompressed frame.
max data rate of 54 mbps is what we have for this wireless access point ( https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/picost... ). So compressing the image and reducing the rate are the two options available I guess?
I believe so. 54mbs is 5.4MB/s in the absolute best case and only one way (simplex). You could take a look at image_proc/resize and some of the image transport options (like theora, or imagezero_transport).
@gvdhoorn I have everything working with image transport theora. Now, the bottle neck is compression. For a stream of 640 X 480, frame rate reduces to 20fps from 30fps on a Nvidia Jetson TX2 For high res imagery (1920 X 1080) it reduces to 3fps from 30fps. Are there better compression packages?
Asked: 2018-02-15 10:57:02 -0500
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May I suggest a topic title change? Your question title is "running ROS on multiple computers", but in reality you are looking for suggestions on how to stream high resolution image data over a wireless connection. Those two don't match up.
Sure! Done.