Using Remote mapping in Microsoft Azure (or any other Cloud Services)

[TheCatalyst]

Hi,

I wanted to ask if it's possible to stream camera data to the cloud (Microsoft Azure), where I could run a Ubuntu VM and render the cloud map?

Thank you
Jamshid

[matlabbe]

Hi Jamshid,

The tricky part is to convert ROS topics to be published over Internet, then convert them back to ROS topics on the cloud so you can use rtabmap_ros directly. You may search or ask on ROS answers which framework (e.g., webrtc) is the best to transfer ROS topics over internet.

Afterwards, it is more a problem of bandwidth, ping, connection reliability to be able to do remote mapping through internet. If you can do odometry onboard, rtabmap on the cloud would only require images at 1 Hz to use less bandwidth.

cheers,
Mathieu