rosserial - lost sync with device (arduino)

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Hi everyone,

I am experiencing some issues whith the rosserial_arduino tutorial "hello world" example. I am working on a ASUS eee PC with the latest ubuntu version (11.04) and a ROS release I installed during july 2011.

After installing the rosserial stack as described in the tutorial (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosserial_arduino/Tutorials/Arduino%20IDE%20Setup), I was able to upload the "hello world" sketch into my arduino duemilanove.

Following the "hello world (example publisher)" page (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosserial_arduino/Tutorials/Hello%20World), the issue appears in the terminal where I run the 'rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyUSB0' command :

me:$ rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyUSB0 [INFO] [WallTime:1315932634.660507] ROS Serial Python Node [INFO] [WallTime:1315932634.673866] Connected on /dev/ttyUSB0 at 57600 baud [ERROR] [WallTime:1315932664.690539] Lost sync with device, restarting... ... ...

Also as expected, when I try to listen to the topic with 'rostopic echo chatter', I have this warning message : WARNING: topic [/chatter] does not appear to be published yet

I was able to run a sketch with an IR sensor on the arduino in a standalone mode, so the communication between the computer and the arduino seems fine.

Did anyone already experience this 'sync' issue ? Is there any other way of checking the synchronisation between the arduino and ROS ?

Thanks a lot for anyhelp :) Dr. Frederic Villeneuve-Seguier