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Not sure that this has anything to do with the ROS component of this program. It seems like it is just an issue with your serial implementation. I don't have time to dig into your code, but my serial library is available in ROS and is known to work in many existing robots, so you might try that:

http://wjwwood.io/serial/doc/1.1.0/index.html

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