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ROS 2, humanoid robots, drones and autonomous vehicle systems.

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shapemsgs

This package provides several messages and services for describing 3dimensional shapes.

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stdmsgs Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the stdmsgs package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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stdmsgs

stdmsgs provides many basic message types. Only a few messages are intended for incorporation into higherlevel messages. The primitive and primitive array types should generally not be relied upon for longterm use.

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stdsrvs Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the stdsrvs package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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stdsrvs

This package provides several service definitions for standard but simple ROS services.

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stereomsgs Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the stereomsgs package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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stereomsgs

This package provides a message for describing a disparity image.

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trajectorymsgs Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the trajectorymsgs package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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trajectorymsgs

This package provides several messages for defining robotic joint trajectories.

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visualizationmsgs Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the visualizationmsgs package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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visualizationmsgs

This package provides messages for visualizing 3D information in ROS GUI programs, particularly RViz.

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consolebridgevendor Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for the consolebridgevendor package, based on the guidelines in REP2004https://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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README

This demo provides examples of three different ways to use the rclcppcomponents API to compose multiple nodes in a single process.

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README

This pendulum control demo is available in the default ROS 2 install. Follow the instructions to build ROS 2 from source: https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/LinuxDevelopmentSetup.html

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Quality of Service Demos

The demo applications in this package show the various Quality of Service settings available in ROS2. The intent is to provide a dedicated application for each QoS type, in order to highlight that single feature in isola

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Visualizing the effect of QoS policies

This demo uses a “topic monitor” that can be used to visualize the statistics of ROS 2 topics that are publishing sequential data.

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Topic monitor demo

The demo is written using the rclpy Python client library. Please note that the rclpy client library API is currently under heavy development and likely to change.

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Topic Statistics Demo

The demo application in this package demonstrates Topic Statisticshttps://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Concepts/AboutTopicStatistics.html feature in ROS 2. The application creates ROS 2 nodes to publish messages to topics, su

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eigen3cmakemodule

On Ubuntu Bionic, the Eigen3 CMake package offers exported targets and nonstandard CMake variables. This is a problem for packages using amentcmakehttps://github.com/ament/amentcmake.

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README

Tutorial on how to try out the examples: Writing a simple service and client C++https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Tutorials/WritingASimpleCppServiceAndClient.html Writing a simple service and client Pythonhttps://docs.ros.

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Launch testing examples

This package contains simple use cases for the launch and launchtesting packages. These are designed to help beginners get started with these packages and help them understand the concepts.

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examplesrclcppcbgexecutor

The examplesrclcppcbgexecutor package provides a demo and test bench for the Callbackgrouplevel Executor concept. This concept was developed in 2018 and has been integrated in ROS 2 mainline in 2020, i.e., is available f

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Minimal timer examples

This package contains a few different strategies for creating short nodes which have timers. The timerlambda and timermemberfunction examples create subclasses of rclcpp::Node and set up an rclcpp::timer to periodically

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Minimal publisher examples

This package contains a few different strategies for creating short nodes which blast out messages. The talkertimerlambda and talkertimermemberfunction recipes create subclasses of rclcpp::Node and set up an rclcpp::time

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