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Controlling transitions between states in SMACH

asked 2014-06-02 01:13:42 -0500

Mehdi.

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Hello, i started working with SMACH few days ago and I was wondering how I could control the transition between my states from external events. For example a transition would be triggered by the event "voice detected" or "light turned on" which could be published to a topic. I'm aware that it is possible to use acitonlib with SMACH but the tutorial is really confusing and not clear and there is no complete working example as far as I know. I'm also working with a central state machine where many smaller states are nested. Somebody has an idea how to implement event driven state transitions?

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answered 2014-06-02 03:43:17 -0500

hawesie

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If your external event is going to correspond to something being published on a topic, then you should look at MonitorState.The python docs are here.

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Thanks, this does what I need. I previously did it manually using an endless loop at the end of my state checking for a global variable that is changed to true in a callback function of a subscribed topic.

Mehdi. ( 2014-06-02 22:32:26 -0500 )edit

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