ROS namespace

ROS supports namespaces with the ‘/’ separator.

Names often need to be remapped at runtime. Remapping is often done by changing the namespace. Suppose the robot has a right and a left camera, and you want image_view to subscribe to the output from the right camera.

You can remap the image image topic to right/image

$ ./image_view image:=right/image

and then start the camera in the right namespace

$ ./camera __ns:=right

You can also rename nodes at runtime.

$ ./talker __name:=talker1

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