ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Learning how to interact with topics

To interact and get information about topics, we have the rostopic tool. This tool accepts the following parameters:

• rostopic bw TOPIC: This displays the bandwidth used by topics
• rostopic echo TOPIC: This prints messages to the screen
• rostopic find TOPIC: This finds topics by their type
• rostopic hz TOPIC: This displays the publishing rate of topics
• rostopic info TOPIC: This prints information about active topics
• rostopic list: This lists the active topics
• rostopic pubs TOPIC: This publishes data to the topic
• rostopic type TOPIC: This prints the topic type

If you want to see more information on these parameters, use -h, as follows:

    $ rostopic bw -h  

With the pub parameter, we can publish topics that ...