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socat pseudoterminals with ROS or rosbridge? [closed]

asked 2014-01-19 09:01:20 -0600

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updated 2014-01-19 14:10:38 -0600

EDIT: I am running linuxMint Lisa with ROS Groovy

I am trying to connect the output of the roomba driver in ROS to a software that can read a serial port. I created a pair of pseudoterminals that are nulled together. I then created some symbolic links to nonsense USB ports such as /dev/ttyUSB21, ttyUSB22. It is simple to test that these work correctly on their own by using the following code in two separate terminals:

cat /dev/ttyUSB22

Then in another terminal:

sudo echo "hello world..." > /dev/ttyUSB21

The message sent to ttyUSB21 prints from ttyUSB22 as I expect. Messages can be sent the other direction as well (from USB22 to USB21).

I am trying to connect the brown university roomba driver to one of these port, ttyUSB21 for instance. This way, I can attach my other custom software to ttyUSB22, and read in the messages sent by the roomba driver. This other software is a simple roomba simulator I am writing. You should be able to connect to it the same as you would a real roomba, through a serial port (in this case, the pseudoterminals).

I expect a ROS message to use the following path:
usercode-->ROScore-->brown roomba driver--> ttyUSB21 -->ttyUSB22 --> my Simulator.

To test this, I am replacing "my Simulator" in the above with a "cat /dev/ttyUSB22" just to see it print out the message. For some reason I am not able to get anything coming out the cat command when I run my simple usercode.

I can't seem to find any info on how I might get this to work otherwise, and there isn't a lot of data (that I can find at least) about ROS interacting with psedudoterms.

I have seen a little about rosbridge, but I'm not sure if it can do what I need and if so, how I might get it to work.

Any help would certainly be appreciated!

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answered 2014-02-04 06:26:31 -0600

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UPDATE: still having problems.

I now have my pseudoterminals nulled together. I have tested this with Brown university's irobot_create_2_1 driver.py. I am selecting the correct port, etc. When I run the driver.py on the other end of my pseudoterminals, I get two hex values from driver.py: 80 07 which is a request for the cliff and bump sensors. Regardless of what I return I get nothing back.

When I snoop in on communications to a REAL irobotCreate (just changing the serial port in driver.py) I sniff 0xfd from the driver.py on startup. I then get a reply from the iRobotCreate containing something similar to the following: 5e 72 0a be b0

Why would the driver.py send different bytes to the real serial port than my pseudoterminals? How does that even make sense?

Anyway,I think that since I have socat relaying at least something now, that the above can be "solved" though I might start a new question thread with the new issue I am having.

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