RoveComm

The UDP/TCP packet protocol used by all MRDT computing devices

Cloning / Updating

Since the manifest.json is located in a different repository the steps for cloning and updating the repository are a bit different than usual. Everytime the manifest.json is updated, the update command listed below needs to be executed.

• Clone: git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/MissouriMRDT/RoveComm_Python.git
• Update: git submodule update --init --recursive

Dependencies

This implementation of RoveComm uses the Python3 socket library to handle sending custom messages using the UDP and TCP transport protocols.

Packet Structure

The RoveComm udp packet header is 5 bytes long:

• uint8_t rovecomm_version
• uint16_t data_id
• uint8_t data_type
• uint8_t data_count

The packet then countains a data_count number of data elements. The size of each element depends on the data type.