A Robot Nervous System#
Learning Objectives
This series of articles will show your how to utilize various features of
iceoryx2 to bring up a non-trivial system.
Meet Larry, our imaginary robot. Larry’s got an ultrasonic sensor, a camera, and enough algorithms to find his way from A to B without hitting a wall. The catch? Those algorithms and sensors are already built, they are organized into different processes, and maybe even on different machines. Your job is to wire it all together so Larry actually does something useful.
That’s where iceoryx2 comes in. In this tutorial, we’ll build the communication
layer that connects Larry’s brain, eyes, and wheels. Along the way, we’ll look
at publish–subscribe messaging, events, and request–response patterns.
And because a real system is more than just “moving data around,” we’ll also set things up so you can debug and introspect Larry, record sensor data, and replay it later while you cook up new algorithms.
Think of it as putting Larry’s nervous system online—without the medical degree.
Throughout this tutorial, the following topics will be covered: