ROS Background

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William Emfinger edited this page Nov 29, 2017 · 3 revisions

ROS - The Robot Operating System is not an operating system but a middleware and set of libraries that facilitates the development and execution of distributed robotic systems.

ROS Provides some convenient classes / utilities:

ros::Time
ros::Duration
ros::Time::now()

ROSMOD is built upon ROS, so you can use:

ros::Publisher
ros::Subscriber
ros::Client
ros::Server
ros::Timer
ros::NodeHandle

Additionally, ROSMOD adds (to each Component):

config
logger