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ROS Architecture and Implementation

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Describe an in-depth architecture and implementation approach for ROS in a robotics system.

Explain how you would structure ROS nodes, topics, services, actions, message definitions, sensor and actuator interfaces, launch and configuration management, and the boundary between real-time control and machine learning inference. Cover implementation choices for communication quality of service, synchronization, lifecycle management, deployment, testing, observability, and safe degradation. Discuss how you would handle training-serving skew, model and feature drift, and failures in sensors, networks, compute, or individual nodes.