• dds
• gstreamer
• streaming
• video

The RoVe (Robots voor Veiligheid – Robots for security) aims to the development of a distributed multi-robotic system for the Dutch National Police (NPN), with a particular focus on the Plug and Play functionality, interoperability within systems and the autoconfiguration. For these requirements, the Data Distribution System (DDS) middleware standard was adopted for the development of the system.
Within the project, my work was focused on the development, design and evaluation of a low latency, scalable video streaming system.
The first goal of the project was then to interface an open-source implementation of DDS to the gStreamer framework, and to tune the QoS and x264 parameters to obtain a live-captured video streaming over DDS.
The second goal was to let the system become interoperable with a language-independent data model, and scalable with respect to the network context, evinced for example from WiFi power and available bandwidth readings.