Only released in EOL distros:  

lse_communication: wifi_comm

Package Summary

Multi robot communication library and discovery node. Needs foreign_relay and olsrd to work.

Documentation

WifiComm allows multi-robot peer-2-peer style communication. The discovery node works together with olsrd to publish information related to available neighbors. A library is also available to allow for easy opening and closing of foreign_relays, the method by which local topics are published on a foreign roscore, thus providing the communication channel.

OLSR

You can download olsrd-0.6.0 from http://www.olsr.org/.

ROS API

wifi_discovery_node

wifi_discovery_node uses olsrd to watch for neighbor robots.

Published Topics

wifi_neighbours_list (wifi_comm/WiFiNeighboursList)
  • List of neighbors on the network provided by olsrd.

Parameters

/wifi_discovery_node/frequency (int, default: 1)
  • The update frequency of the neighbors list.

Tutorials

  1. Download and install wifi_comm

    This tutorial will guide you through the process if downloading and installing wifi_comm as well as olsrd.

  2. How to run wifi_comm

    This tutorial guides you through the process of running wifi_comm.

Wiki: wifi_comm (last edited 2011-03-15 12:25:44 by Gonçalo Cabrita)