ROS message_filters的使用

1 message_filters时间同步器

message_filters时间同步器有两种时间同步方式，一种是完全同步(ExactTime),另一种采用自适应算法来进行近似的时间同步。

2 ExactTime时间同步

message_filters::sync_policies::ExactTime策略要求消息具有完全相同的时间戳信息，才能进行匹配，只有当所有通道的消息都具有完全相同的时间戳时才会调用回调函数。

#include <message_filters/subscriber.h>
#include <message_filters/synchronizer.h>
#include <message_filters/sync_policies/exact_time.h>
#include <sensor_msgs/Image.h>
#include <sensor_msgs/CameraInfo.h>

using namespace sensor_msgs;
using namespace message_filters;

void callback(const ImageConstPtr& image, const CameraInfoConstPtr& cam_info)
{
  // Solve all of perception here...
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  ros::init(argc, argv, "vision_node");

  ros::NodeHandle nh;
  message_filters::Subscriber<Image> image_sub(nh, "image", 1);
  message_filters::Subscriber<CameraInfo> info_sub(nh, "camera_info", 1);

  typedef sync_policies::ExactTime<Image, CameraInfo> MySyncPolicy;
  // ExactTime takes a queue size as its constructor argument, hence MySyncPolicy(10)
  Synchronizer<MySyncPolicy> sync(MySyncPolicy(10), image_sub, info_sub);
  sync.registerCallback(boost::bind(&callback, _1, _2));

  ros::spin();

  return 0;
}

3 ApproximateTime近似时间同步

#include <message_filters/subscriber.h>
#include <message_filters/synchronizer.h>
#include <message_filters/sync_policies/approximate_time.h>
#include <sensor_msgs/Image.h>

using namespace sensor_msgs;
using namespace message_filters;

void callback(const ImageConstPtr& image1, const ImageConstPtr& image2)
{
  // Solve all of perception here...
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  ros::init(argc, argv, "vision_node");

  ros::NodeHandle nh;
  message_filters::Subscriber<Image> image1_sub(nh, "image1", 1);
  message_filters::Subscriber<Image> image2_sub(nh, "image2", 1);

  typedef sync_policies::ApproximateTime<Image, Image> MySyncPolicy;
  // ApproximateTime takes a queue size as its constructor argument, hence MySyncPolicy(10)
  Synchronizer<MySyncPolicy> sync(MySyncPolicy(10), image1_sub, image2_sub);
  sync.registerCallback(boost::bind(&callback, _1, _2));

  ros::spin();

  return 0;
}