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Your ActionServer is a regular ros node. You must create a loop inside what you call goalCB(), and do all your "server work" inside that loop. You must sleep inside the loop, usually using a ros::Rate object. The SimpleActonServer tutorial shows you how to do this: link

ROS will check for preempt each time you call sleep() on the Rate object, so that will work fine.

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