Herman,

I am aware of the necessary decoupling between algorithm and middleware,
since people from ROS and Orocos talked about it extensively.

My use case features two algorithms (IK from the moveit API and a "custom"
saturator) that I would like to use together or separately in an Orocos
environment or a ROS environment.
Since both these algorithms need information about joint limits etc., I
thought I could make an interface to read configuration files or
description files (in this case also generated by MoveIt) from the Orocos
interface.
An Orocos deployer can "live" in a ROS node, and I am looking for a way to
provide these files to my Orocos components as well as being able to
publish the output of my Orocos components to predefined topics.

However, I may make a logic mistake regarding decoupling, don't hesitate to
point it out!

Thanks

Flavian

2013/9/13 Herman Bruyninckx <Herman [dot] Bruyninckx [..] ...>

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Flavian Hautbois wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answers.
>>
>> I still have another point to add: say I want a simple two-component
>> deployer, with an IK solver and a saturator. The saturator publishes to a
>> topic (typically something like trajectory_point_streamer). Both the IK
>> and
>> the saturator need either ROS functionalities (the IK will use MoveIt API)
>> or configuration files located in ROS packages (eg. yaml files for joint
>> limits).
>> In this architecture we are no longer decoupled but Orocos provides a more
>> "architectural" view of the inside of the node (I view it as a sort of
>> composition of Orocos components).
>>
>> Any thoughts on the possibility of doing this?
>>
>
> Sure... This use case is one in which no ROS or Orocos should be anywhere
> in sight! In other words, putting cooperating _algorithms_ into
> separate _OS-level_ container components makes no sense. At all.
>
> You should free the algorithms from their ROS/Orocos container prison, and
> call them as functions in your new, composite algorithm.
>
> Flavian
>>
>
> Herman
>
>
> 2013/9/13 Ruben Smits <ruben [dot] smits [..] ...>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Dominick Vanthienen <
>>> dominick.vanthienen@mech.**kuleuven.be<dominick [dot] vanthienen [..] ...>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/12/2013 03:00 PM, Flavian Hautbois wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to encapsulate an Orocos deployer into a ROS node. The
>>>>>
>>>> deployer is an XML file that should be independant from the ROS files. I
>>>> want to create a ROS node, load
>>>>
>>>>> the XML file, and then run the node with minimal user implication
>>>>>
>>>> (ideally the user should not notice that the node is a wrapper around
>>>> Orocos).
>>>> if you run the orocos code, eg. rosrun ocl deployer-gnulinux deploy.ops
>>>> which contains connection of ports with topics (using the
>>>> rtt_ros_integration), it will show up automatically as a node in
>>>> rxgraph,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is only the case if you import the rtt_rosnode plugin!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> you can however also run this using a launch file, to make it more ROS
>>>> style:
>>>> <launch>
>>>> <node name="oronode" pkg="ocl" type="deployer-gnulinux" args="-s $(find
>>>> my_oro_pkg)/deploy.ops --">
>>>> <node>
>>>> <launch>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I think this is what you are looking for, it will also work if your
>>> Orocos
>>> application is completely ROS independent.
>>>
>>> Ruben
>>>
>>>
>>> I am looking for any ressource or example that could help me with that.
>>>>> I am using the orocos_toolchain package in ROS.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> F. Hautbois
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hth,
>>>>
>>>> nick
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