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Publish to topic via launch file

asked 2016-03-29 16:37:22 -0600

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Is it possible to publish to a topic with a custom message type from within a launch file?

In a launch-file I launch several robots from external packages which I want to register to my running platform as they are launched.

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answered 2016-03-29 19:25:56 -0600

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You can run rostopic pub from within a launch file with:

<node pkg="rostopic" type="rostopic" name="rostopic" args="pub {pub args}"/>

where {pub args} are the arguments to rostopic pub to make it publish the way you want it to.

You may also want to change name="rostopic" to something specific to each robot, if there will be multiple copies of this running with the same ros master.

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Hi, please can you help me,i have project arm robot with ROS in Raspberry, i know how run two arduino same time but i need publish different valor of just each topic , the commade is :

rostopic pub servo4 std_msgs/UInt16 180

<node pkg="rostopic" type="rostopic" name="rostopic" args="pub {pub args}" <="" p="">

How can I use that ? For example, the arm needs the initial position of this arm to be 6 degrees  of liberty. We need to publish six different topics. i thinking this parameters but i don't know if this is true :

pkg = rostopic

type = pub servo4

name = std_msgs/UInt

args = entre 0  to 180

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answered 2021-11-12 22:58:42 -0600

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Hi, please can you help me,i have project arm robot with ROS in Raspberry, i know how run two arduino same time but i need publish different valor of just each topic , the commade is :

rostopic pub servo4 std_msgs/UInt16 180

<node pkg="rostopic" type="rostopic" name="rostopic" args="pub {pub args}" <="" p="">

How can I use that ? For example, the arm needs the initial position of this arm to be 6 degrees  of liberty. We need to publish six different topics. i thinking this parameters but i don't know if this is true :

pkg = rostopic

type = pub servo4

name = std_msgs/UInt

args = entre 0  to 180

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