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rmw_cyclonedds repository

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version humble
Last Updated 2022-11-07
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 1.3.4

README

ROS 2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS middleware for ROS 2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS 2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS 2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS 2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

Quality Declaration

This package claims to be in the Quality Level 2 category, see the Quality Declaration for more details.

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version iron
Last Updated 2023-04-12
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 1.6.0

README

ROS 2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS Tier 1 ROS middleware for ROS 2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS 2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS 2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS 2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

Quality Declaration

This package claims to be in the Quality Level 2 category, see the Quality Declaration for more details.

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version jazzy
Last Updated 2024-11-28
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 2.2.2

README

ROS 2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS Tier 1 ROS middleware for ROS 2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS 2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS 2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS 2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

Quality Declaration

This package claims to be in the Quality Level 2 category, see the Quality Declaration for more details.

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version rolling
Last Updated 2024-11-28
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 3.1.0

README

ROS 2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS Tier 1 ROS middleware for ROS 2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS 2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS 2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS 2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

Quality Declaration

This package claims to be in the Quality Level 2 category, see the Quality Declaration for more details.

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version dashing-eloquent
Last Updated 2020-09-15
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
cyclonedds_cmake_module 0.7.0
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 0.7.0

README

ROS2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS middleware for ROS2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
  apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
  

or

  apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
  

2) Set env variable and run ROS2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3) Confirm RMW: In Eloquent, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Building from source and contributing

Note the master branch maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and later, including the not-yet-released Foxy.

If building ROS2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version dashing-eloquent
Last Updated 2020-09-15
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
cyclonedds_cmake_module 0.7.0
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 0.7.0

README

ROS2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS middleware for ROS2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
  apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
  

or

  apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
  

2) Set env variable and run ROS2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3) Confirm RMW: In Eloquent, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Building from source and contributing

Note the master branch maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and later, including the not-yet-released Foxy.

If building ROS2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version galactic
Last Updated 2022-12-03
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 0.22.6

README

ROS 2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS middleware for ROS 2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS 2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS 2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy.
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS 2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rmw_cyclonedds.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version foxy
Last Updated 2022-09-20
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rmw_cyclonedds_cpp 0.7.11

README

ROS2 RMW for Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Easy, fast, reliable, small Eclipse Cyclone DDS middleware for ROS2. Make your 🐢 run like a 🚀 Eclipse Cyclone DDS has great adopters and contributors in the ROS community and is an Eclipse Foundation open source project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (autonomous driving).

This package lets ROS2 use Eclipse Cyclone DDS as the underlying DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is ready to use. It seeks to give the fastest, easiest, and most robust ROS2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

  1. Install:
   apt install ros-eloquent-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   

or

   apt install ros-dashing-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
   
  1. Set env variable and run ROS2 apps as usual:

```export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp


3. Confirm RMW: In Eloquent and later, to confirm which RMW you're using:

   
```ros2 doctor --report

Performance recommendations

With large samples (100s of kilobytes), excessive latency can be caused by running out of space in the OS-level receive buffer. For this reason, on Linux, we recommend increasing the buffer size:

  • Temporarily (until reboot): sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608 net.core.rmem_default=8388608
  • Permanently: echo "net.core.rmem_max=8388608\nnet.core.rmem_default=8388608\n" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/60-cyclonedds.conf

Debugging

So Cyclone isn’t playing nice or not giving you the performance you had hoped for? That’s not good… Please file an issue against this repository!

The ddsperf tool distributed with Cyclone DDS can be used to check that communication works without ROS. Run ddsperf sanity on two different machines - if the “mean” value is above 100000us, there are likely network issues.

If you’re having trouble with nodes discovering others or can’t use multicast at all on your network setup, you can circumvent discovery:

export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Discovery><Peers><Peer Address='myroshost.local' /><Peer Address='myroshost2.local' /></></>'

Here are some ways to generate additional debugging info that can help identify the problem faster, and are helpful on an issue ticket:

  • Configure Cyclone to create richer debugging output:

    • To see the output live:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>stderr</></>'

    • To send to /var/log/:

      export CYCLONEDDS_URI='<Tracing><Verbosity>trace</><Out>/var/log/cyclonedds.${CYCLONEDDS_PID}.log</></>'

  • Create a Wireshark capture:

    wireshark -k -w wireshark.pcap.gz

Building from source and contributing

The following branches are actively maintained:

  • master, which targets the upcoming ROS version, Foxy.
  • dashing-eloquent, which maintains compatibility with ROS releases Dashing and Eloquent

If building ROS2 from source (ros2.repos), you already have this package and Cyclone DDS:

cd /opt/ros/master
rosdep install --from src -i
colcon build
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

CONTRIBUTING

Any contribution that you make to this repository will be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that license:

5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.