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Hi, everyone! I'm using the motor drive md25 in raspberry pi with i2c communication. Now I need to add a Ultrasonic sensor that works with i2c too. The sensor and the motor drive work on different ROS nodes. How can I avoid crashing the i2c communication? Can i use mutex in different nodes? Does ROS provide tools to avoid this?
ROS doesn't provide any mutex classes; those are provided by the Python standard library, the C++ standard library (in C++11 and newer), or pthreads, boost, or another threading library. (For example, boost has https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_67_0... ).
I have written and used mutexes across processes like this as part of my day job, and it took me about a week to build a well-tested, inter-process mutex using the available primitives from posix and pthreads. It is _possible_, but it's a lot of work and NOT a beginner project.
Instead, all of the ROS nodes that I've seen that need to do this write a single node that handles the mutexing internally, and publishes and subscribes to multiple topics. If you have two devices on the same I2C bus, you should write (or combine) the ROS nodes into a single node.
I'm surely a beginner. hahaha Thanks for your answer. ;)
Asked: 2019-01-19 12:03:09 -0500
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Last updated: Jan 19 '19
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