Tell me the following codes meaning “rate = rospy.Rate(10)“
The code “rate = rospy.Rate(10)” means that this Rospy node will run at 10 Hertz (10 cycles per second).
Rospy is a Python client library for ROS (Robot Operating System). It allows you to quickly write ROS nodes (programs) in Python.
The rospy.Rate() call allows you to specify a fixed rate at which a loop in your node will run. In this case, by passing 10 as the argument, it means:
- The loop will run 10 times per second
- Each iteration of the loop will take 0.1 seconds (1/10 = 0.1)
- If an iteration takes longer than 0.1 seconds to complete, the next iteration will start immediately after
- If an iteration completes faster than 0.1 seconds, rospy.Rate.sleep() will sleep the thread until 0.1 seconds have passed before starting the next iteration
So in short, it allows you to have a fixed frequency loop in your ROS node.
Some examples of using rospy.Rate() would be:
rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10hz
while not rospy.is_shutdown():
do_something()
rate.sleep()
This would run do_something() 10 times per second.
ate = rospy.Rate(1) # 1hz
for i in range(100):
do_something(i)
rate.sleep()
This would iterate 100 times, running do_something() at 1Hz, so the full loop would take 100 seconds.