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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming
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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

by Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Questions

  1. What is the difference between ROS topics and ROS messages?

A) Both stand for the data transmitted from one node to the other. B) A topic is how you identify a transmission channel and a message is one sample of the content that flows through that channel.C) Any topic name has to be unique, while several topics can transmit the same message.

  1. Which command would use to record a ROS session?

A) rosbag B) rosrecord C) roswrite

  1. Can a ROS node have a publisher and a subscriber at the same time?

A) Yes, if the topic subscriber is the same as the topic publisher. B) No, because it would imply a programming conflict: a node with a publisher loops at a constant rate, that is, rate.sleep(), while a node with a subscriber only runs an ...

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ISBN: 9781838551308Supplemental Content