ROS Conventions

[reinzor]

Currently, the ROS naming conventions are not met within the ros packages / nodes / configurations of pepper:

• Frame names: Should be all lower case underscore separated http://wiki.ros.org/tf2
• Topic & node names: Lowercase underscore separated http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Patterns/Conventions

I could send a PR to fix this, would you be interested?

[Karsten1987]

Thanks for bringing this up. As of TF, we're aware of this, but the URDF files are mostly generated and comply with the internal libqi/naoqi conventions.
AFAIK, the same rule applies for topic names.

[reinzor]

Can't we add a post_script after the auto_generation that transforms camelcases to lowercase underscore?

[victorpaleologue]

It's doable, but wouldn't that break existing code?
Unless we publish them in another topic...
And then we have to document how to switch from one to the other.
It's a bit annoying.

Can we compare that to the consequences of not renaming?
What would be wrong if we kept these names this way?