ROS 进阶学习笔记（15） - Use Service to play ROS-Serial communication

Use Service to play ROS-Serial communication

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ROS 进阶学习笔记（12） - Communication with ROS through USART Serial Port

In that blog above, we discussed ROS-Serial communication through r2serial_driver node (C++). There is a problem that the r2serial made too much cpu expenses. Like below:

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 Kevin mentioned a question: "Interesting, but a lot of my serial stuff is send a message and receive a response back. Instead of separate publish/subscribes. have you tried a service? That seems like it would work nicely for this."

I also noticed a problem: MY Linux's System RAM and CPU seems to be much costed by r2serial_driver when it is running.

This time, we'll see how to use Kevin's service to play ROS serial communication.

Use Service to play ROS-Serial communication

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-- Check out and compile this package --

Use this commands to check out the rosbuild package (rather than catkin package), androsmakethem:

exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws$ cd sandbox/
exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws/sandbox$ git clone https://github.com/walchko/serial_node
exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws/sandbox$ cd serial_node/
exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws/sandbox/serial_node$ rosmake
...
...
[ rosmake ] /home/exbot/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20160511-173021             

exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws/sandbox/serial_node$ rospack find serial_node
/home/exbot/rosbuild_ws/sandbox/serial_node
exbot@my_robot:~/rosbuild_ws/sandbox/serial_node$roscore && rosrun serial_node serial_node 0 /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 true

[ INFO] [1462959095.157208573]: Service uc0_serial on /dev/ttyUSB0 @ 9600 baud

We can see the expense of serial_node by command "top": [ The expenses has been very small. ]

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-- How to use this service for our works --

1.  Understand what is ros service:

• Here, I recommend the newer of ROS to read four links carefully and understand them as deep as you can:
  
• http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingServicesParams#Using_rosservice
  Above, you need to understand the service_node need a request and will give back a response.
  
  http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/CreatingMsgAndSrv#Using_srv
  Above, you need to understand the .srv file defines the data type of req. and rep.
  
  http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingServiceClient%28c%2B%2B%29
  Above, you need to understand the key points of a source code for an ROS Service node.
  
  http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/ExaminingServiceClient
  Above, describes the source code for client to examine if the service node works fine.
  
  

2.  Read the source code of "serial_node_service.cpp" and use "rosservice call" command to test it

          run the service by:

        > $ rosrun seal_node serial_node 0 /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 true

          call this service by (open another terminal):

        > $ rosservi