rospy.init_node() has already been called with different arguments
Hello,
I have followed the following tutorial link text to create a joint state listener. Although this process is not working for me. I have a robot with 24 joints and I want to write a listener so that I can get joint position of the mentioned joint. The above mentioned link creates a handy server to filter out the required joint positions. I followed the same but I was unable to subsrcribe to the required joint. In order to test where the bug is , I have tried to first create the object from the LatestJointStates class, when I do that I am having the following error,
File "/home/microbot/catkin_ws/src/spider/spider_control/control.py", line 31, in __init__
rospy.init_node('joint_states_listener')
File "/opt/ros/melodic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospy/client.py", line 274, in init_node
raise rospy.exceptions.ROSException("rospy.init_node() has already been called with different arguments:
"+str(_init_node_args))
rospy.exceptions.ROSException: rospy.init_node() has already been called with different arguments:
('joint_state_publisher', ['/home/microbot/catkin_ws/src/spider/spider_control/control.py'], True, None, False, False)
For reference I am also posting the code that is present in the link,
class LatestJointStates:
def __init__(self):
rospy.init_node('joint_states_listener')
self.lock = threading.Lock()
self.name = []
self.position = []
self.velocity = []
self.effort = []
self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.joint_States_listener)
self.thread.start()
s = rospy.Service('return_joint_states', JointState, self.return_joint_states)
#thread the function to listen to joint state messages
def joint_states_listener(self):
rospy.Subscriber('joint_states', JointState, self.joint_states_callback)
rospy.spin()
#callback function inorder to save the values when joint_states are available
def joint_States_callback(self, msg):
self.lock.acquire()
self.name = msg.name
self.position = msg.position
self.velocity = msg.velocity
self.effort = msg.effort
self.lock.release()
#function that returns joint variables for joint names that are given
def return_joint_state(self, joint_name):
#no messages
if self.name==[]:
rospy.logerr("no robot_State messages received \n")
return 0, 0, 0, 0
#return info for this joint
self.lock.acquire()
if joint_name in self.name:
index = self.name.index(joint_name)
position = self.position[index]
velocity = self.velocity[index]
effort = self.effort[index]
#joint name not found
else:
rospy.logerr("Joint %s not found", (joint_name))
self.lock.release()
return 0, 0, 0, 0
self.lock.release()
return 1, position, velocity, effort
#server callback to return array of position velocity and effort of the called joint names
def return_joint_states(self, req):
joints_found = []
positions = []
velocities = []
efforts = []
for joint_name in req.name:
(found, position, velocity, effort)=self.return_joint_state(joint_name)
joints_found.append(found)
positions.append(position)
velocities.append(velocity)
efforts.append(effort)
return ReturnJointStatesResponse(joints_found, positions, velocities, efforts)
This was supposed to be the service node as mentioned in the provided link and its called back as follows
def call_return_joint_states(joint_names):
rospy.wait_for_service("return_joint_states")
try:
print("bug testing call_return joint states")
s = rospy.ServiceProxy("return_joint_States", JointState)
resp = s(joint_names)
except rospy.ServiceException as e:
print ('error when calling return_joint_states:' + s +'is' + e)
sys.exit(1)
for (ind, joint_name) in enumerate(joint_names):
if(not resp.found[ind]):
print ('joint %s ...