ROS Message

Writing some notes on how different types of ROS messages are defined.

There are 3 main standard ROS message:

  1. std_msgs
  2. sensor_msgs
  3. vision_msgs
  4. nav_msgs

These are some more:

Some new kinds of messages I’ve been exposed to through MIT-PITT-RW:

  • ros-humble-can-msgs
  • ros-humble-geographic-msgs
  • ros-humble-gps-msgs

As I do more of the WATonomous stuff, find myself looking into these:

  • trajectory_msgs - link

https://docs.ros2.org/foxy/api/trajectory_msgs/msg/JointTrajectory.html