ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Creating plugins for the calculator application using pluginlib

Creating a calculator application using plugins is a slightly tedious task compared to writing a single code for The aim of this example is to show how to add new features to calculator without modifying main application code.

In this example, we will see a calculator application that loads plugins to perform each operation. Here, we only implement the main operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We can expand to any level by writing individual plugins for each operation.

Before going on to create the plugin definition, we can access the calculator code from the chapter_5_codes/pluginlib_calculator folder for reference.

We are going to create a ...