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+Quick hack for relaying local ros topics to a remote rosbridge master.
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+This works on ros-melodic, you can change it to build using other ros-distro's easily by editing the Dockerfile.
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+To run, make sure you have docker installed and simply run the command `docker compose up --build` from the root
+of this repository. You can also run `docker compose up --build --detach` to run it in the background.
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+Configuration is set in the `docker-compose.yaml`. This includes what topics to relay, and a TOPIC_PREFIX
+which should be unique for each drone.