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Package Summary

std_msgs contains common message types representing primitive data types and other basic message constructs, such as multiarrays. For common, generic robot-specific message types, please see common_msgs.

• Author: Morgan Quigley/mquigley@cs.stanford.edu, Ken Conley/kwc@willowgarage.com, Jeremy Leibs/leibs@willowgarage.com
• License: BSD
• Repository: ros_comm
• Source: svn https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros_comm/tags/electric/messages/std_msgs

Overview

std_msgs contains wrappers for ROS primitive types, which are documented in the msg specification. It also contains the Empty type, which is useful for sending an empty signal.

This package also contains the "MultiArray" types, which can be useful for storing sensor data.

ROS Message Types

Roadmap

There are currently no plans to add new data types to the std_msgs package.