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asked 2015-09-13 20:04:18 -0600

tony
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Hi,

I have a publisher to publish message to one topic at different time. Each time before I publish the new message, how can I clean the messages on the topic published at other time? Thanks.

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Why would you need that? After a subscriber receives a message, this message then vanishes. Probably what you actually need in your situation is to use services as they allow to publish messages only on requests.

VitaliyProoks ( 2015-09-14 00:27:42 -0600 )edit

@VitaliyProoks Because I noticed that the robot didnot stop after publishing (0,0) to topic cmd_vel. I suspect that there is velocity command on topic cmd_vel published at other time.

tony ( 2015-09-14 05:30:17 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-09-14 07:02:14 -0600

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Then it looks like it is issue in your robot's code, messaging in ROS works fine :) ROS provides tools for listening to/publishing from topics either from console or by means of rqt_gui try to debug by sending test messages and see what happens.

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