ROS Topic Publisher

  • 01_01_ros_topic_publisher.ipynb

  • Running the cell code
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import rospy
from std_msgs.msg import String
  • Importing rospy modules

  • Importing String from std_msgs.msg module

def talker():
    pub = rospy.Publisher('chatter', String, queue_size=10)
    rospy.init_node('talker', anonymous=True)
    rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10hz
    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
        hello_str = "hello world %s" % rospy.get_time()
        rospy.loginfo(hello_str)
        pub.publish(hello_str)
        rate.sleep()
  • Create talker() function

  • Create talker nodes and chatter topics

  • Publish “hello world” + ROS Timestamp Message

try:
    talker()
except rospy.ROSInterruptException:
    pass
  • Executing the talker() function and handling exceptions