Is it possible to distribute sensors over multiple computers?

Question

I would like to simulate a number of robots (up to let's say 10) in real time, each with a significant sensor suite. Is it possible to distribute sensors as slaves to the physics simulation across multiple machines? If it's not right now, does the architecture readily support it? I could imagine a plugin to the main server to broadcast world changes, and a "fake" physics that passes that on to the local sensors on each slave machine.

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Originally posted by Max Pfingsthorn on Gazebo Answers with karma: 53 on 2012-11-28

Post score: 3

Answer 1

Sensor simulation is currently not distributed. I've created a ticket for this: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/issue/383/distributed-sensors

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Originally posted by nkoenig with karma: 7676 on 2013-01-11

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Veerachart on 2021-06-23:
Hi nkoenig. I wonder if there is any update on this. The ticket is still there.