Examples

Author: Tobit Flatscher (March - May 2023)

Overview

This directory contains several examples of Docker in combination with ROS:

• The ROS Indigo workspace affordance-templates-ros-docker shows how Docker can be used to revive an old ROS workspace that would require an outdated operating system to run.
• The repository docker-realtime explains how to set-up a computer with a real-time-patched operating systems (PREEMPT_RT-patch) and how to run real-time capable code from inside a Docker container.
• The workspace lpms-ros-docker and the repository realsense-ros2-docker show how to give access to external hardware connected via USB to a Docker with examples for a Life Performance Research IMU as well as Intel Realsense sensors, such as their depth cameras.
• The repository velodyne-ros2-docker shows how to give access to devices connected over Ethernet to a Docker using the example of a Velodyne 3D lidar.