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They indeed complement and overlap each other. realtime_tools is part of ros_control and used/maintained. I don't know about the status of ros_realtime, but at least it has functionality that is currently lacking in realtime_tools. I wondered the same thing as you some months ago, but did not have the resources to get it done.

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