ROS x Arduino

Today, I tried follow the guidence of "ROS Robotics Projects", succuessfully made the communication from Ubuntu on my laptop and Arduino MAGE 2560.

1. Install the rosserial package:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosseiral
$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosseiral-arduino

2. Install Arduino IDE for linxu 64bit version, just download it and unzip, open IDE:

$ ./arduino

3. in /home/marc/Arduino folder, you will find a folder named libraries, if you cant find it, just mkdir

4. create ros_lib forlder by input this line:

$ rosrun rosserial_arduino make_libraries.py .

5. Reopen the Arduino IDE, you will find the example code inside ros_lib, select the Blink, almost lession 101:

you will find:

/* 
 * rosserial Subscriber Example
 * Blinks an LED on callback
 */

#include <ros.h>
#include <std_msgs/Empty.h>
#include <std_msgs/String.h>
ros::NodeHandle  nh;

void messageCb( const std_msgs::String& toggle_msg){
  digitalWrite(13, HIGH-digitalRead(13));   // blink the led
}

ros::Subscriber<std_msgs::String> sub("toggle_led", &messageCb );

void setup()
{ 
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  nh.initNode();
  nh.subscribe(sub);
}

void loop()
{  
  nh.spinOnce();
  delay(1);
}

change the std_msgs::Empty to std_msgs::String. and upload it to Arduino 2560 board.

6. Fire up the roscore and serial trans node in another terminal:

$ rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyACM0

7. Vim to create a publisher to send topic to Arduino:

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 */
// %Tag(FULLTEXT)%
// %Tag(ROS_HEADER)%
#include "ros/ros.h"
// %EndTag(ROS_HEADER)%
// %Tag(MSG_HEADER)%
#include "std_msgs/String.h"
// %EndTag(MSG_HEADER)%

#include <sstream>

/**
 * This tutorial demonstrates simple sending of messages over the ROS system.
 */
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  /**
   * The ros::init() function needs to see argc and argv so that it can perform
   * any ROS arguments and name remapping that were provided at the command line.
   * For programmatic remappings you can use a different version of init() which takes
   * remappings directly, but for most command-line programs, passing argc and argv is
   * the easiest way to do it.  The third argument to init() is the name of the node.
   *
   * You must call one of the versions of ros::init() before using any other
   * part of the ROS system.
   */
// %Tag(INIT)%
  ros::init(argc, argv, "talker");
// %EndTag(INIT)%

  /**
   * NodeHandle is the main access point to communications with the ROS system.
   * The first NodeHandle constructed will fully initialize this node, and the last
   * NodeHandle destructed will close down the node.
   */
// %Tag(NODEHANDLE)%
  ros::NodeHandle n;
// %EndTag(NODEHANDLE)%

  /**
   * The advertise() function is how you tell ROS that you want to
   * publish on a given topic name. This invokes a call to the ROS
   * master node, which keeps a registry of who is publishing and who
   * is subscribing. After this advertise() call is made, the master
   * node will notify anyone who is trying to subscribe to this topic name,
   * and they will in turn negotiate a peer-to-peer connection with this
   * node.  advertise() returns a Publisher object which allows you to
   * publish messages on that topic through a call to publish().  Once
   * all copies of the returned Publisher object are destroyed, the topic
   * will be automatically unadvertised.
   *
   * The second parameter to advertise() is the size of the message queue
   * used for publishing messages.  If messages are published more quickly
   * than we can send them, the number here specifies how many messages to
   * buffer up before throwing some away.
   */
// %Tag(PUBLISHER)%
  ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise<std_msgs::String>("toggle_led", 1000);
// %EndTag(PUBLISHER)%

// %Tag(LOOP_RATE)%
  ros::Rate loop_rate(1);
// %EndTag(LOOP_RATE)%

  /**
   * A count of how many messages we have sent. This is used to create
   * a unique string for each message.
   */
// %Tag(ROS_OK)%
  int count = 0;
  while (ros::ok())
  {
// %EndTag(ROS_OK)%
    /**
     * This is a message object. You stuff it with data, and then publish it.
     */
// %Tag(FILL_MESSAGE)%
    std_msgs::String msg;

    std::stringstream ss;
    ss << "hello world " << count;
    msg.data = ss.str();
// %EndTag(FILL_MESSAGE)%

// %Tag(ROSCONSOLE)%
    ROS_INFO("%s", msg.data.c_str());
// %EndTag(ROSCONSOLE)%

    /**
     * The publish() function is how you send messages. The parameter
     * is the message object. The type of this object must agree with the type
     * given as a template parameter to the advertise<>() call, as was done
     * in the constructor above.
     */
// %Tag(PUBLISH)%
    chatter_pub.publish(msg);
// %EndTag(PUBLISH)%

// %Tag(SPINONCE)%
    ros::spinOnce();
// %EndTag(SPINONCE)%

// %Tag(RATE_SLEEP)%
    loop_rate.sleep();
// %EndTag(RATE_SLEEP)%
    ++count;
  }


  return 0;
}
// %EndTag(FULLTEXT)%

 Just remember the msg type is std_msgs::string and the topic is "toggle_led";

make it and run the node.

8. use rostopic list and rostopic echo /toggle_led to check who is publishing and who is subscribing.

9. The result is you can see LED is blink after node arduinoTalker sent any words through serial port.