ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Standard naming conventions used in ROS

Here we are using the text Helloworld to demonstrate the naming patterns we are using in ROS:

• HelloWorld: This name starts with an uppercase letter, and each new word starts with an uppercase letter with no space or underscores.
• helloWorld: In this naming method, the first letter will be lowercase but new words will be in uppercase letters without spaces.
• hello_world: This only contains lowercase letters. Words are separated with underscores.
• HELLO_WORLD: All are uppercase letters. Words are separated by an underscore.

The following are the naming conventions followed by each component in ROS:

• Packages, Topics/Services, Files, Libraries: These ROS components are following the hello_world pattern. ...