Publish MarkerArray in an already existing Marker Topic

asked 2021-03-28 10:30:33 -0600

UndefinedDuck
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Hi guys, I have a node that publishes a MarkerArray Topic:

ros::Publisher obst_pub = nh.advertise<visualization_msgs::MarkerArray>("/obstacles_markers", 1);

which contains my obstacles. Then I have another node that calculates the width of obstacles through the laser scanner and put it in a MarkerArray as well.

Now the problem is that I want to publish this new MarkerArray into the other existing topic "obstacles_markers", is that possible?

answered 2021-03-28 12:25:25 -0600

gvdhoorn
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Now the problem is that I want to publish this new MarkerArray into the other existing topic "obstacles_markers"

that's not really a problem.

is that possible?

yes, of course.

Publish-subscribe is a many-to-many interaction pattern/style.

Subscribers do not know who published a message, nor do publishers know who subscribers are.

In fact, publishers do not know anything about subscribers (nor the other way around).

So it's perfectly possible to publish to the same topic from different nodes.

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Perhaps you've always thought about topics as being channels to which only sender and receiver are connected, each on one end (ie: the beginning and the end). But that's not how topics works (or: you're not restricted to such a topology).