Rename ROS Topics pulished by the RB5

[Prabhav Gupta]

Hello,

My setup includes a RB5 drone, connected to a local wifi network, running the voxl_mpa_to_ros node. This enables my laptop connected on the same network to find and subscribe to the same topics remotely.

I would like to implement my own SLAM (such as RTAB-MAP or ORB-SLAM3) based on the image and imu data received from the drone. This requires me to change the name on the ROS topics published by the drone to ones expected by the SLAM node.

For example, in case of ORB-SLAM (https://github.com/thien94/orb_slam3_ros?tab=readme-ov-file#4-ros-topics-params-and-services) -

Expected topics:
/camera/image_raw for Mono(-Inertial) node
/camera/left/image_raw for Stereo(-Inertial) node
/camera/right/image_raw for Stereo(-Inertial) node
/imu for Mono/Stereo/RGBD-Inertial node
/camera/rgb/image_raw and /camera/depth_registered/image_raw for RGBD node

Actual topic names:

/hires_large_color
/hires_large_encoded
/hires_large_grey
/hires_small_color
/hires_small_encoded
/hires_small_grey
/hires_snapshot
/imu_px4
/qvio/odometry
/qvio/pose
/qvio_overlay
/rosout
/rosout_agg
/stereo_front/left
/stereo_front/right
/stereo_rear/left
/stereo_rear/right
/tracking

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Moderator]

@Prabhav-Gupta The code for voxl-mpa-to-ros is here. You can for it and make the changes you need

[Prabhav Gupta]

@Moderator Thanks a lot, I will look into this!

[smilon]

@Prabhav-Gupta You can just remap the topics coming out of the voxl_mpa_node, or remap the topics inside your ORBSLAM launch file. No need to mess with the source code.