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Arduino and rosserial: reliable for industrial applications?

asked 2017-05-18 11:40:48 -0600

Rick Armstrong gravatar image

I'd like to run a ServiceServer on an Arduino board, but Googling around I'm not seeing a lot of success stories, just lots of posts about problems, with no solution. For example: this kind of thing.

This is for an industrial application, and we're looking for high-reliability. Questions:

  • Should I forget about Arduino and just go straight to C/C++?
  • Anyone here have good experiences with Arduino and rosserial's ServiceServer?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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answered 2017-09-30 18:30:05 -0600

rreignier gravatar image

My advice would be to change your application to use topics instead of services.

The paradigm is not the same but it is the fact that a service is blocking that make it less reliable with a serial link.

Rosserial with only topics seems reliable enough because it is already used by several companies.

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That's exactly what I ended up doing (using topics instead of services). Thanks.

Rick Armstrong gravatar image Rick Armstrong  ( 2017-10-01 19:58:55 -0600 )edit

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