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Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Repository: ros
- Source: svn https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros_realtime/tags/ros_realtime-0.5.2
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: master)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: master)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: master)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: unmaintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: unmaintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: unmaintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
rosrt provides classes for interfacing with ROS from within realtime systems, such as realtime-safe Publisher and Subscriber classes.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Devon Ash <dash AT clearpathrobotics DOT com>
- Author: Josh Faust
- License: BSD
- Source: git https://github.com/ros/ros_realtime.git (branch: noetic-devel)
Overview
rosrt is a package that contains realtime-safe tools for interacting with ROS. It is currently experimental and not API stable, so use at your own risk. Used together with a Xenomai Kernel the ROS processes get guaranteed CPU time and are not affected by other processes. rosrt can also slightly improve performance by avoiding memory allocations by preallocating. Those speed-ups should probably be helpful even if not running a real time system if small margins are important.
Initialization
Before using any of rosrt you must call:
1 rosrt::init();
There is an optional InitOptions argument to rosrt::init().
rosrt::init() starts three threads, one for publishing, one for subscribing and one for garbage collection. The publisher thread uses a lock-free multi-writer single-reader queue with a fixed limit on the # of messages specified by InitOptions::pubmanager_queue_size.
Publisher
See also: rosrt::Publisher API docs
Using the rosrt::Publisher is very similar to the standard ros::Publisher but with some realtime-specific requirements. First, it provides you with a fixed-size buffer of messages (10 in the example below). To be realtime safe you must allocate your messages out of this rosrt::Publisher you're publishing it with. Second, you must initialize each of those messages with a template message when you initialize the rosrt::Publisher. Anything that needs to be preallocated should be preallocated in this template.
Deallocation of the Publisher's pool of memory is done by a separate garbage collection thread, and will not happen until all messages allocated out of the Publisher have been freed (or on program exit).
Subscriber
See also: rosrt::Subscriber API docs
Using the rosrt::Subscriber is a bit different from the standard ros::Subscriber, mainly because it's polling based instead of callback based:
As with the rosrt::Publisher, you must specify a message pool size. If you are not going to be storing off received messages the optimal size for this is 3 (1 for the ROS-side subscription queue, 1 waiting in the Subscriber, 1 in use by realtime).
poll() will never return the same message twice. This means:
<message received> sub.poll() <--- returns a message sub.poll() <--- returns NULL <message received> sub.poll() <--- returns a message ...
Deallocation of the Subscriber's pool of memory is done by a separate garbage collection thread, and will not happen until all messages allocated out of the Subscriber have been freed (or on program exit).
Allocation Tracking
rosrt also provides a way of tracking allocations and frees per thread. See the getThreadAllocInfo(), resetThreadAllocInfo(), setThreadBreakOnAllocOrFree() functions in the rosrt namespace, as well as the AllocInfo struct.