Sensor discovery on runtime with ROS?
Hi,
I discovered the ROS project last week and was fascinated about large hardware support and the nice tools for development. Now I try to understand its relevance to my work.
I am interested in scenarios where mobile robots explore their intelligent environment by various external sensors (static sensor nodes and other robots). Each of them provides an electronic data sheet containing all necessary information about range, data format, uncertainty, etc. If a new sensor comes close to the robot for wireless communication it transfers its data sheet via a special pub/sub channel to the robot. It examines the available information and discard them or subscribes to the channel mentioned in the data sheet.
According to the concepts of ROS, are such scenarios implementable in your system, or do I need a predefined msg format in each case, for instance?
Looking forward to your remarks
Best wishes from Germany
Poseidonius
