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Cellumation Executors

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A ROS2 packages providing alternative executor implementations. Currently only one executor is provided, the EventsCBGExecutor.

Features

  • Compared to rclcpp::experimental::EventsExecutor

    • Multithread support

    • Support for mixing timers using different clocks (ROS_TIME/SYSTEM_TIME/STEADY_TIME)

    • Comparable performance in one thread mode

  • 10-15% less CPU usage than rclcpp::SingleThreadedExecutor and rclcpp::MultiThreadedExecutor

Known bugs

  • If the process is constantly overloaded and can not process the subscriptions timers etc, over time the events bag log will grow unbounded.

Usage

#include <cm_executors/events_cbg_executor.hpp>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
  rclcpp::init(argc, argv);

  // multithreaded mode, use at least 2 thread or as many threads as processor cores detected
  int numThreads = 0;

  // Single threaded mode, has better latencies because of less context switches
  //int numThreads = 1;

  rclcpp::executors::EventsCBGExecutor executor(rclcpp::ExecutorOptions(), numThreads);

  // add nodes etc

  executor.spin()
}