message-filters

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Synchronize multi-topic ROS 2 data with time filters.

Authorwimblerobotics
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

Facilitate time-aligned processing of messages from multiple ROS 2 topics by using message_filters to synchronize callbacks based on timestamps.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • TimeSynchronizer for exact timestamp matching across topics.
  • ApproximateTimeSynchronizer for near-simultaneous messages with slop.
  • Python and C++ usage examples for both subscription patterns, QoS considerations, and cached filtering.
  • Common debugging guidance to ensure reliable data fusion in perception pipelines.

Quick Start

Configure a multi-topic ROS 2 node to subscribe to the relevant topics with message_filters.Subscriber instances, create a TimeSynchronizer or ApproximateTimeSynchronizer, register a callback, and process the synchronized data.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: message-filters
Download link: https://github.com/wimblerobotics/ros2-copilot-skills/archive/main.zip#message-filters

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