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

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Googletest Primer

googletest helps you write better C++ tests.

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The Problem

Template and macro libraries often need to define many classes, functions, or macros that vary only or almost only in the number of arguments they take. It's a lot of repetitive, mechanical, and errorprone work.

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Googletest Samples {samples}

If you're like us, you'd like to look at googletest samples.https://github.com/google/googletest/tree/master/googletest/samples The sample directory has a number of wellcommented samples showing how to use a variety of g

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Customization Points

The custom directory is an injection point for custom user configurations.

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Platform Support

This document reflects the level of support offered by eProsima Fast CDR on different platforms as per the following definitions:

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Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for eProsima Fast CDR based on the guidelines provided in the ROS 2 REP2004 documenthttps://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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Fast CDR

Licensehttps://img.shields.io/github/license/eProsima/FastCDR.svghttps://opensource.org/licenses/Apache2.0 Releaseshttps://img.shields.io/github/v/release/eProsima/FastCDR?sort=semverhttps://github.com/eProsima/FastCDR/r

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VERSIONING

Versioning policy declaration =============================

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Platform Support

This document reflects the level of support offered by eprosima Fast DDS on different platforms as per the following definitions:

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External Dependency Public API foonathanmemory

This document lists the foonathanmemory API that eprosima Fast DDS uses. This document will be updated if new features are included and used in eprosima Fast DDS.

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Quality Declaration

This document is a declaration of software quality for eprosima Fast DDS inspired on the guidelines provided in the ROS 2 REP2004 documenthttps://www.ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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External Dependency Quality Declaration foonathanmemory

This document is a declaration of software quality for the foonathanmemory external dependency, inspired on the guidelines provided in the ROS 2 REP2004 documenthttps://ros.org/reps/rep2004.html.

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eProsima Fast DDS

Fast DDSresources/images/fastddsgithubbanner.pnghttps://eprosima.com/index.php/productsall/eprosimafastdds

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Release support

Please, refer to the master branchhttps://github.com/eProsima/FastDDS/blob/master/RELEASESUPPORT.md for the latest version of this document.

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VERSIONING

Versioning policy declaration =============================

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Intraprocess delivery

Several requirements, each with a section.

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Interprocess Shared Memory model

This document describes a model for interprocess shared memory communication of software components interchanging data messages. The objective of the model is to provide a shared memory based transport layer suitable for

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Overview

DDSiRTPSRealTime PublishSubscribe is the protocol that enable to support vendor implementation. And RTPS specifies implementaion and message packet format and other stuff as well. On this proposal, it will descibe how we

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Overview

Sony has already done implementation using internal shared memory light framework to connect rmw layer, so that ROS2 applicatoin can use the shared memory publisher/subscriber framework without notice. This is the same t

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Basic Configuration Example

This example extends the configuration options of a trivial HelloWorld by letting the user specify properties of entities such as durability, reliability or specify the transport protocol to be used, among other possibil

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Content Filtered Topic Example

This example extends the HelloWorld example to show how to use Content Filtered Topics. It does so by including two different Filter Factories: on the one hand, the default SQL filter; on the other hand, a custom filter

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Custom Listeners example

This example illustrates how to create custom listeners for different DDS entities. When multiple listeners are configured to respond to the same callback the lowest member will be executed. In lowest to highest order we

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Deadline QoS example

This example illustrates the Deadline QoS feature on a FastDDS Application.

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Disable Positive ACKs QoS example

This example illustrates how to use the Disable Positive ACKs QoS extension in a Fast DDS application. When using this QoS, Acknack messages are only sent by the reader if it is missing any samples. In this way, strict r

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