dummy

Dummy driver. More...

Dummy driver.

The dummy driver generates dummy data and consumes dummy commands for any interface; useful for debugging client libraries and benchmarking server performance.

Compile-time dependencies

• none

Provides

This driver can theoretically support any interface. Currently supported interfaces:

• camera
• laser
• ranger
• position2d
• ptz
• wsn
• gps
• position3d
• blobfinder
• joystick
• power
• pointcloud3d
• imu
• fiducial
• wifi
• actarray
• opaque
• dio
• aio

Requires

• none

Configuration requests

• This driver will consume any configuration requests.

Configuration file options

• rate (float)
• Default: 10
• Data rate (Hz); e.g., rate 20 will generate data at 20Hz.

Example

driver
(
  name "dummy"
  provides ["laser:0"]  # Generate dummy laser data
  rate 75               # Generate data at 75Hz
)

Author

Andrew Howard, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Rich Mattes