Adding robots to a fleet

[GeorgeBethel]

I would like to know how openRMF add robots to a fleet as unique names. For example in the openRMF demo, the names of the robots and their capabilities were loaded from a yaml file or config file. However in real world I would have robots that are connected in a ros2 network. My question is, would I use the IP address of each robot as identifier to add them to the fleet ? If not, how do I go about naming the robots?

[mxgrey]

It's entirely up to you as a system integrator to decide how the robots should be named. The only rule is that each mobile robot must have a unique name within its fleet.

Some system integrators use human-friendly names, some use UUIDs. IP addresses could work in theory if you're assigning a static IP address to each robot, but that might be fragile because even static IP addresses can get reassigned in ways that are difficult to keep track of.

But you have to decide on whatever approach makes the most sense for your setup.