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Julia Callback Unhandled Error

asked 2018-05-21 17:03:33 -0500

All, I am attempting to use RobotOS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ROS Kinetic and Julia 0.4.5. I want to do something pretty simple - publish PWM from velocity commands. I have written the following code:

#!/usr/bin/env julia

using RobotOS
@rosimport std_msgs.msg: UInt8, Float32
rostypegen()
using std_msgs.msg

# Constants:
wheel_radius = 128.95e-3; # meters
gear_ratio = 1.0/12.0; # wheel turns/motor turns
max_rot = 2000.0; # maximum rpm of motors



function calc_pwm(target)
    target = convert(Float64, target) # make sure data types are OK
    # Calculate desired RPM
    rpm = abs(target)*60.0/(2.0*pi*wheel_radius*gear_ratio);
    if rpm > max_rot
        rpm = max_rot
    end
    # Calculte the PWM based off of RPM
    if target > 0.0
        pwm = (92.0/max_rot)*rpm+160.0;
    elseif target < 0.0
        pwm = 153.0-(92.0*rpm)/max_rot;
    else
        pwm = 155.0;
    end
end


function callback(msg::Float32Msg, pub_obj::Publisher{UInt8Msg})
    # Extract the data from rwheel_vtarget msg
    velocity = msg.data
    # Calculate the PWM
    pwm = calc_pwm(velocity)
    # Convert to ROS message
    pwm = UInt8Msg(pwm)
    # Publish the data
    publish(pub_obj, pwm)
end

function main()
    init_node("speed_to_pwm")
    #r_pub = Publisher{UInt8Msg}("Duty_Cycle_Right", queue_size=10)
    #r_sub = Subscriber{Float32Msg}("rwheel_vtarget", callback, (r_pub,), queue_size=10)
    l_pub = Publisher{UInt8Msg}("Duty_Cycle_Left", queue_size=10)
    l_sub = Subscriber{Float32Msg}("lwheel_vtarget", callback, (l_pub,), queue_size=20)
    spin()
end

if ! isinteractive()
    main()
end

When I run this script and use the rostopic pub command it works perfectly, but when I integrate (joy --> teleop_twist_joy-->twist_to_vel-->Julia Node) it gives the following error:

ERROR (unhandled task failure): InexactError()
 in call at ./no file:4294967295
 in callback at /home/connorfuhrman/catkin_ws/src/speed_to_pwm/scripts/pwm_gen.jl:67

Honestly, I am not very experienced in ROS or Julia so any help would be appreciated!

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I'm not very familiar with Julia, but it looks like your callback is getting called and is throwing some kind of error about loss of precision. Maybe try rostopic pub with various decimal values to try to reproduce the issue?

ahendrix gravatar image ahendrix  ( 2018-05-21 18:28:43 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-05-21 18:49:55 -0500

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The issue is that your callback returns the pwm signal as a Float64 but then you try to to put it into a UInt8Msg. Julia tries to convert it and fails when it discovers the number isn't exactly an integer from 0-255. An explicit conversion such as return round(UInt8, pwm) at the end of calc_pwm should fix it.

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Thank you!! This is the second Julia script I have ever written so rookie mistake.

cmfuhrman gravatar image cmfuhrman  ( 2018-05-21 19:35:30 -0500 )edit

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