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Duplicated Node Checker#

Purpose#

This node monitors the ROS 2 environments and detect duplication of node names in the environment. The result is published as diagnostics.

Standalone Startup#

ros2 launch duplicated_node_checker duplicated_node_checker.launch.xml

Inner-workings / Algorithms#

The types of topic status and corresponding diagnostic status are following.

Duplication status Diagnostic status Description
OK OK No duplication is detected
Duplicated Detected ERROR Duplication is detected

Inputs / Outputs#

Output#

Name Type Description
/diagnostics diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticArray Diagnostics outputs

Parameters#

Name Type Description Default Range
update_rate float The scanning and update frequency of the checker. 10 >2

Assumptions / Known limits#

TBD.