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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

Last updated 12 September 2005 21:38:45