[Rock-dev] Plan for integration of ROS nodes into Rock

[Peter Soetens]

On Thursday 01 September 2011 12:36:33 Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> One of the goals of the Virgo project will be to seamlessly use ROS
> nodes into a Rock system. I'm starting to look at the "how".
> 
> Here's a brief summary of the current plan:
> 
>     https://rock.opendfki.de/wiki/WikiStart/OngoingWork/ROSIntegration
> 
> Comments are welcome

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It looks sensible to me. Just for clarification:

- allow building ROS stacks in autoproj ? Will you use the concepts of stacks?
- What do you mean by 'orogen type' ? is it a C/C++ header with data type defs 
? Would this mean that you want to support a work-flow, where the user looks at 
a ROS message, then specifies a similar C struct (independent of ROS) and then 
allow orogen to 'map' these ? Wouldn't it be sufficient to generate a ros-
independent C/C++ header from the ROS .msg file ?

- Why do you want to implement service calls ? (cfr not using operations)
- What do you mean with not supporting dynamic reconnections of ROS nodes ?

Peter