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Interactive markers: launch on robot, or on desktop?

asked 2014-04-11 03:38:45 -0600

Looking at how other robots are set up, there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus on this.

For clarity, I'm specifically talking about the case where a robot has one (or more) headless PCs onboard, and rviz is being run off-board, probably from a launcher part of a xxxx_viz or xxxx_desktop package.

Should an interactive marker server be started by default with the base robot bringup, or should it be launched alongside rviz, in the view_robot.launch roslaunch file?

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answered 2014-04-11 04:07:27 -0600

I think it´s pretty hard to give a general answer here, as it depends a lot on the given application if it´s better to start things onboard or offboard. For example, if you want the interactive marker to be available to any user connecting to the robot via rviz, it probably makes sense to run it onboard. If you want to save bandwidth/reduce issues due to potential wireless latency you might want to start it together with rviz on demand on your offboard computer (perhaps both together in a launch file as you suggested). The good thing is that multiple options can be tested pretty easily using ROS.

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