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In today’s video we are going to see what’s the difference between rosrun and roslaunch, when do we use one or another, and what are their advantages.
But before we start, if you are new to ROS and want to Learn ROS Fast, I recommend you to take any of the following courses on Robot Ignite Academy:
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Follow these steps to recreate the project as shown in the video
- Go to Robot Ignite Academy. You will need to signup if you have not registered already.
- In the home page, choose the course ROS Autonomous Vehicles 101 in the Advanced Courses category
- Once you start the course, you will be greeted with the workspace like following (note: it will take a while to load the full page)
Now we will use the rosrun
command to start a rqt_image_view
node. Enter the following command in one of the SHELLS
rosrun rqt_image_view rqt_image_view
- In order to see the visualisation we need to open the Graphical View by clicking on the graphical tool icon shown in the previous image. The graphical view opens in a new tab like follows
Since the model we are using (autonomous car) has many camera topics, we will need to choose one from the drop-down in the graphical view (shown in image).
rosrun
essentially lets us start a single node. However, in many cases one needs to start multiple nodes at a time. To do this (launching multiple nodes simultaneously) we have launch file and theroslaunch
command. Lets create such a launch file to launch xyz. Navigate to ~/catkin_ws/tuto/src/ and create a launch directory and create a file inside this directory launch_rviz.launch. Use the following command to achieve this
$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src/tuto/ $ mkdir launch
$ cd launch
$ touch launch_rviz.launch
Next, we will add the following content to this file using the cloud9 editor. Use the editor to browse to the file and then double click on the file name to open it (as shown in image)
The code for the launch file as follows
<launch> <node name="cam1" pkg="rqt_image_view" type="rqt_image_view" /> <node name="cam2" pkg="rqt_image_view" type="rqt_image_view" /> </launch>
Now we will launch this launch file with the following command
roslaunch tuto launch_rviz.launch
On executing the above command we will see two new nodes appear and two rqt_image_view appear in the Graphical window tab. That’s all for this video.
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