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How do you detect on the Arduino's end when the host has stopped responding with rosserial_arduino?
I'd like to implement a safety feature where if the host crashes or otherwise becomes unresponsive, the Arduino will immediately halt any motors. However, nothing in the documentation explains how to access the last read times from the node handle.
There's a connected() method in the underlying rosserial_client API: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rosser... ; it looks like it does this by monitoring the time sync messages, and the timeout is about 10 seconds.
That's probably a bit too long for a safety timeout, and I'm not aware of any other periodic messages that are built into rosserial.
Probably the best thing to do is to implement your own timeout; my favorite way to do this is to set a timeout on the command message itself. If my firmware doesn't receive a command within 3x the expected command interval, it commands an immediate stop. (I'm not using rosserial, but the principle is the same)
Asked: 2017-02-12 22:19:03 -0500
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Last updated: Feb 13 '17
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