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Python ROS Bridge library.

Project description

Python ROS Bridge library allows to use Python and IronPython to interact with ROS, the open-source robotic middleware. It uses WebSockets to connect to rosbridge 2.0 and provides publishing, subscribing, service calls, actionlib, TF, and other essential ROS functionality.

Unlike the rospy library, this does not require a local ROS environment, allowing usage from platforms other than Linux.

The API of roslibpy is modeled to closely match that of roslibjs.

Main features

  • Topic publishing and subscribing.

  • Service calls (client).

  • Service advertisement (server).

  • ROS parameter management (get/set/delete).

  • ROS API services for getting ROS meta-information.

  • Actionlib support for interfacing with preemptable tasks.

  • TF Client via the tf2_web_republisher.

Roslibpy runs on Python 2.7 and 3.x and IronPython 2.7.

Installation

To install roslibpy, simply use pip:

pip install roslibpy

For IronPython, the pip command is slightly different:

ipy -X:Frames -m pip install --user roslibpy

Remember that you will need a working ROS setup including the rosbridge server and TF2 web republisher accessible within your network.

Documentation

The full documentation, including examples and API reference is available on readthedocs.

Contributing

Make sure you setup your local development environment correctly:

  • Clone the roslibpy repository.

  • Create a virtual environment.

  • Install development dependencies:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

You’re ready to start coding!

During development, use pyinvoke tasks on the command line to ease recurring operations:

  • invoke clean: Clean all generated artifacts.

  • invoke check: Run various code and documentation style checks.

  • invoke docs: Generate documentation.

  • invoke test: Run all tests and checks in one swift command.

  • invoke: Show available tasks.

For more details, check the Contributor’s Guide available as part of the documentation.

Releasing this project

Ready to release a new version roslibpy? Here’s how to do it:

  • We use semver, i.e. we bump versions as follows:

    • patch: bugfixes.

    • minor: backwards-compatible features added.

    • major: backwards-incompatible changes.

  • Update the CHANGELOG.rst with all novelty!

  • Ready? Release everything in one command:

invoke release [patch|minor|major]
  • Profit!

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.2.1

Fixed

  • Fix JSON serialization error on TF Client (on Python 3.x)

0.2.0

Added

  • Add support for IronPython 2.7

Changed

  • Handler on_ready now defaults to run the callback in thread

Deprecated

  • Rename run_event_loop to the more fitting run_forever

0.1.1

Fixed

  • Minimal documentation fixes

0.1.0

Added

  • Initial version

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