Protocol Buffer tutorial for ROS

Protocol Buffers are Google's language-neutral and platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

1. Protocol Buffers. Kindly read below for installation purpose.

1. Download the repository or use git clone appropriately.
2. Make sure to have a working ros workspace. Place the downloaded code inside source folder i.e., src of ros workspace.
3. Setup protobuf. Kindly see here.

1. Invoke catkin tool inside ros workspace i.e., catkin_make

1. Invoke the publisher by using following command rosrun ros_protocol_buffer_tutorial main
2. The published data can be seen by using following coomand rostopic echo /protobuff_address_book

1. The application is tested on ROS Indigo in 64Bit Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, 8GB RAM, Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz x 8 CPU with kernel 4.4.0-59-generic and gcc 4.8.4.

Please check here and create issues accordingly.