ROS: Publishing and Subscribing to Arrays

Post author By Alex
Post date July 2, 2011
6 Comments on ROS: Publishing and Subscribing to Arrays

In ROS (Robot Operating System) it’s really easy to publish variables to be used between nodes running on the same roscore however I was having some difficulty doing the same for arrays. The problem came when there was no real examples of how to use them, so here is a working example of std_msgs/*MultiArray in CPP.

Publishing:

[gist][/gist]

Subscribing:

[gist][/gist]

Tags answers, array, example, how to, Int32MultiArray, int8multiarray, multiarray, MultiArrayDimension, MultiArrayLayout, publishing, ros, std_msgs, subscribing, tutorial

6 replies on “ROS: Publishing and Subscribing to Arrays”

Appreciate it.

Thanks mate, it was very useful!

Thank you so much

Thank you!

Thanks :)

Dear Alex,

just wondering, why doesn’t it work when I change it to Int16MultiArray.

By the way, I’m trying to read int16multiarray

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