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Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/rb-sapiens/launchfile_switcher.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	melodic-devel
Last Updated	2021-05-10
Dev Status	MAINTAINED
CI status	No Continuous Integration
Released	RELEASED
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Contributing	Help Wanted (0) Good First Issues (0) Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name	Version
launchfile_switcher	0.1.0

README

launchfile_switcher

ROS package for management launch files. This package provides features that easily switch launch files.

Building

Build as standard catkin packages. There are no special dependencies needed.

ROS API

launchfile_switcher

Subscribed Topics

/mode (std_msgs/String)
This topic indicates the next mode name. Modes can be defined in a yaml file (an example is below).

config file example

mode_list.yaml

mode_list:
    normal:
        launch:
            - pkg: your_robot_package
              file: /launch/your_robot_start.launch
              args:
                - name: mode
                  value: single_camera
                - name: is_device
                  value: false
            - pkg: your_navigation_package
              file: /launch/your_navigation_start.launch
              args:
                - name: mode
                  value: single_camera
                - name: explore
                  value: false
        keeping_node_patterns:
            - \/?explore.*
    make_map:
        launch:
            - pkg: your_robot_package
              file: /launch/your_robot_start.launch
              args:
                - name: mode
                  value: single_camera
                - name: is_device
                  value: false
            - pkg: your_navigation_package
              file: /launch/your_navigation_start.launch
              args:
                - name: mode
                  value: single_camera
                - name: explore
                  value: true

The example yaml config file above has two modes which equal to:

normal

  <include file="$(find your_robot_package)/launch/your_robot_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="is_device" value="false"/>
  </include>
  <include file="$(find your_navigation_package)/launch/your_navigation_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="explore" value="false"/>
  </include>

make_map

  <include file="$(find your_robot_package)/launch/your_robot_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="is_device" value="false"/>
  </include>
  <include file="$(find your_navigation_package)/launch/your_navigation_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="explore" value="true"/>
  </include>

launch

An array of launchfiles to launch. It consists of pkg, file, args.

pkg: The package name that contains the file to start
file: Relative path of the launch file to start
args: Arrays of arguments of the launch file to start

keeping_node_patterns

An array of node name regular expressions to keep when switching launchfiles.

Default keeping node patterns

\/?rosout
\/?rviz.*
\/?robomaker\/srv
\/?gazebo

Switch launch files

You can switch launchfile sending mode name topic.

rostopic pub -r 10 /mode std_msgs/String  'make_map'

will kill all existing nodes and launch the file below:

  <include file="$(find your_robot_package)/launch/your_robot_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="is_device" value="false"/>
  </include>
  <include file="$(find your_navigation_package)/launch/your_navigation_start.launch">
    <arg name="mode" value="single_camera"/>
    <arg name="explore" value="true"/>
  </include>

launch file sample

  <node pkg="launchfile_switcher" type="launchfile_switcher" name="launchfile_switcher" output="screen">
    <rosparam file="$(find your_package)/config/mode_list.yaml" command="load" />
  </node>

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