Sign in You're reading the documentation for an older, but still supported, version of ROS 2. A wait set is used to inform the Executor about available messages on the middleware layer, with one binary flag per queue. ROS2Publisher-Subscriber executorspinexecutorexecutoradd_nodeAnyExecutable ros2executorsexecutorexecutorsubscription, ros2/examples/rclcpp/executors/multithreaded_executor.cppmain, PublisherNodeDualThreadedNodeDualThreadedNodeMultiThreadedExecutor add_nodespinexecutor.spin, PublisherNodeDualThreadedNode, DualThreadedNodeSubscriptionSubscriptionCallbackGroup Node::create_callback_group, MutuallyExclusiveCallbackGroupType::Reentrant SubscriptionOptions, OptionsSubscriptionSubscriptionOptions, lambdastd::bind rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutorexecutorspin, spinnumber_of_threads_std::threadthreadrunrunspin number_of_threadsstd::thread::hardware_concurrency()cpu8 8ros2 run examples_rclcpp_multithreaded_executor multithreaded_executor IDMultiThreadedExecutor1` , get_next_executable()get_next_subscription(), get_next_subscriptionrcl_subscription_trcl_subscription_tMutuallyExclusiveMutuallyExclusive subscriptionAnyExecutableexecute_any_executableexecute_subscription, execute_subscription, rmw_take_with_infoRMW_RET_OKrmwhandle_message handle_messageCallbackMessageT, // Find the group for this handle and see if it can be serviced. (This is a crucial difference to ROS 1.) CHANGELOG Changelog for package examples_rclcpp_multithreaded_executor 0.15.1 (2022-11-07) 0.15.0 (2022-03-01) The examples_rclcpp_cbg_executor package provides a demo of this mechanism. If I've correctly initialized both the timer and the executor, why this behavior changing the rate. . Type Size Name Uploaded Uploader Downloads Labels; conda: 86.4 kB | win-64/ros-galactic-examples-rclcpp-multithreaded-executor-.11.2-py39he8739fe_3.tar.bz2 4 months and 28 days ago how about supporting a bunch of SinglethreadedExecutor for component_container ? This prioritization was removed in Eloquent. Therefore, the Static Single-Threaded Executor should be used only with nodes that create all subscriptions, timers, etc. If I compile that code as it is, everything works well, and the topic publish rate is about 2Hz as expected. I'm testing rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutor. How to transfer callback groups between nodes? rclc Executor: This Executor from the C Client Library rclc developed for micro-ROS gives the user fine-grained control over the execution order of callbacks and allows for custom trigger conditions to activate callbacks. Already on GitHub? for me, it is just trading-off. from PyQt5.QtCore import * I wrote two Subscription in a node, and at each callback function sleep for 10 seconds. Callbacks may suffer from priority inversion. You must explicitly state which callbacks are mutually exclusive. In rclcpp, such a callback group can be created by the create_callback_group function of the Node class. #include
In case of a Multi-Threaded Executor, the actual parallelism depends on the callback groups. callback funcs1.callback_group2.node3.singleThreaded, why MultiThreadedExecutor act as SingleThreaded? In the above example, the one thread of a Static Single-Threaded Executor is used to serve three nodes together. if the result is something like above, i do not see the difference in performance. @SteveMacenski we had a quick discussion on this in MW WG, i think that it is okay to have this option. rclcpp::executorssingle threadSingleThreadedExecutor add_nodespin :multi_main.cpp multi_main.cpp for Run-time composition , i notice that rclcpp_components only provides component_container which use SingleThreadedExecutor for all component nodes in container and component_container_mt which use MultiThreadedExecutor. All three executors can be used with multiple nodes by calling add_node(..) for each node. By clicking Sign up for GitHub, you agree to our terms of service and Now I'm trying to reproduce and modify this example. Ralph Lange: Advanced Execution Management with ROS 2. Add a parameter, such as dedicated_thread for the container to load the components into a single executor if false and into individual dedicated executor threads if true. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Workshop at ROS World 2021. I don't think this is clear that that is the objective best solution, but it is a useful option to make available based on the needs and discussions in https://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-composition/22175. on incoming messages and events. For tips on how to use callback groups efficiently, see Using Callback Groups. @fujitatomoya what do you think about that suggestion? Usage #include "rclcpp/rclcpp.hpp" allows use of the most common elements of the ROS 2 system. For information on the latest version, please have a look at Humble. and by Node.default_callback_group in rclpy. The following flow diagram visualizes this scheduling semantics. Define custom messages in python package (ROS2). could you make PR, so that we can start review. The Static Single-Threaded Executor optimizes the runtime costs for scanning the structure of a node in terms of subscriptions, timers, service servers, action servers, etc. #include Ideally you want well defined scheduling semantics to perform a formal timing analysis. No rule to make target '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.9.so', [ROS2] correct way to link to created library in gtest, Incorrect Security Information - Docker GUI. This prioritization was removed in Eloquent.). I'm testing rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutor. There are two types of callback groups, where the type has to be specified at instantiation time: Mutually exclusive: Callbacks of this group must not be executed in parallel. Additionally, the executor overhead in terms of CPU and memory usage is considerable. I thought those two callback funcs would be executed at the same time, but in fact, one of them would not be executed until 10 seconds after the other started. I'm trying to use and understand something more about ROS2 multi-thread executor, how it works and now it must properly used. The explicit Executor class (in executor.hpp in rclcpp, in executors.py in rclpy, or in executor.h in rclc) provides more control over execution management than the spin mechanism in ROS 1, although the basic API is very similar. But in your link there is only one node. // the middleware via inter-process communication. in this case, maybe we want to have an ability to configure the number of threads for MultiThreadedExecutor? However, if the processing time of some callbacks is longer, messages and events will be queued on the lower layers of the stack. In order not to counteract the QoS settings of the middleware, an incoming message is not stored in a queue on the Client Library layer but kept in the middleware until it is taken for processing by a callback function. Default to false for current behavior. @rrrand I am confused as to what you mean. Now I'm trying to reproduce and modify this example #include rclcpp provides the standard C++ API for interacting with ROS 2. So I tried to change again the rate at 5ms, and again I got a variable topic rate; once I specified 1 as the thread argument number everything run well again. Since Galactic, the interface of the Executor base class in rclcpp has been refined by a new function add_callback_group (..) . #include Execution management in ROS 2 is explicated by the concept of Executors. Indeed, if we are calling a service from a callback and call the get function of the future directly, we effectively block until the service request resolves but it can't as the reply . I believe you need to create callback groups in order to leverage the MultiThreadedExecutor. This concept was developed in 2018 and has been integrated in ROS 2 mainline in 2020, i.e., is available from ROS 2 Galactic on. : ROS 2 Executor: How to make it efficient, real-time and deterministic?. here is the code. #include Daniel Casini, Tobias Blass, Ingo Ltkebohle, and Bjrn Brandenburg: Response-Time Analysis of ROS2 Processing Chains under Reservation-Based Scheduling, Proc. rclcpp::executors::singlethreadedexecutor executor2; auto node2 = rclcpp::node::make_shared("node2"); executor2.add_node(node2); // spin the executor in a separate See repository README. of 31st ECRTS 2019, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2019. Here is a summary of some of these issues: Complex and mixed scheduling semantics. from pic import Ui_MainWindow Then, this callback group can be specified when creating a subscription, timer, etc. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm working on project Reduce ROS2 Nodes and Determinism of OSPP2021 (under the mentor of Steve Macenski). Type Size Name Uploaded Uploader Downloads Labels; conda: 86.4 kB | win-64/ros-galactic-examples-rclcpp-multithreaded-executor-.11.2-py39he8739fe_3.tar.bz2 4 months and 7 days ago How MultiThreadedExecutor must be initialized? [ROS2] What's the best way to wait for a new message? from examples packages. after all, i think MultiThreadedExecutor is not performative compared to Multiple SingleThreadedExecutor in this case. This allows distributing callback groups to different Executors. i try to implement this feature here https://github.com/gezp/rclcpp/commit/3d48c0aacdc62c1ab688d1147679157ad578927f, what do you think about it? , 1.Qt designer // inter-process communication, given to the user for their callback, // This case is taking a copy of the message data from the middleware via, // rmw_subscription_allocation_t is unused here, // In this case, the message will be delivered via intra process and. If I try to modify the period in the create_wall_timer methods from 500ms to 50ms I got a variable frequency of the topic in a range between 10 to 17Hz. The Multi-Threaded Executor uses its threads as a pool to process a many callbacks as possible in parallel according to these conditions. rclcpp::executors::singlethreadedexecutor executor1; auto node1 = rclcpp::node::make_shared("node1"); executor1.add_node(node1); // create another. I think that having option dedicated executor makes sense for now. It performs this scan only once when the node is added, while the other two executors regularly scan for such changes. You signed in with another tab or window. The Multi-Threaded Executor uses its threads as a pool to process a many callbacks as possible in parallel according to these conditions. // create a node and an executor. Signed-off-by: Alexis Paques paa1ti@bosch.com Closes #2029 This ensures the number of threads of a Multi-threaded executor is at least 2 unless defined explicitly as 1 (why not use the SingleThreadedExecutor?) during initialization. There is something that I miss from the example, or something that must be modified if when I change the timer rate? The default callback group can be queried via NodeBaseInterface::get_default_callback_group() in rclcpp I think essentially wed just make the container a templated class based on executor type so we could instantiate new ones based on T. That would future proof these changes for any potentially new executor types (like static single threaded which currently doesnt have a container for use). Thank for your time. If a parameter, for instance dedicated_thread is set to true, when a new component is added, it is added to its own executor instead of a single one for all components. An Executor uses one or more threads of the underlying operating system to invoke the callbacks of subscriptions, timers, service servers, action servers, etc. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0. to your account. if i am missing anything, please let me know! sorry for answering questions with question, https://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-composition/22175 start navigation is result based on the same workload in the same time window with the same number of threads? 2.uipypic.py pycharmuiexternal toolsPYUICPYUICuipy The Static Single-Threaded Executor reduces this overhead greatly but it might be not enough for some applications. Thank you for pointing it. Package Description Package containing example of how to implement a multithreaded executor Additional Links No additional links. I wouldnt argue with a better multithreaded executor as an alternative, but whats elegant about the changes requested is that they would impact both single and multi threaded executor containers to offer an executor per component behavior for complex systems needing that behavior for single and/or multi threaded node needs. This will allow for the current behavior as well as the option to load each into their own executor thread, which is precisely what we're doing in manual composition (as well as some companies we spoke to that gave us that idea). (Note: The paper also explains that timer events are prioritized over all other messages. I saw that it's possible to specify the number of thread required as argument for the constructor. The wait set is also used to detect when timers expire. In that ticket, we bring up analysis showing that N-single threaded executors are far more computationally efficient than a single N-multithreaded executor. at ECRTS 2019. and composition with multiple single-threaded-executor performs better than normal standalone case. (something like #1708?). Define custom messages in python package (ROS2). btw, https://github.com/gezp/ros2_topic_performance needs to be updated as below to build. ROS Industrial Conference. privacy statement. // Group was not found, meaning the subscription is not valid // Remove it from the ready list and continue looking, // Group is mutually exclusive and is being used, so skip it for now, // Leave it to be checked next time, but continue searching, // Otherwise it is safe to set and return the any_exec, // Else, the subscription is no longer valid, remove it and continue, // This is the case where a copy of the serialized message is taken from. Yes, you can select this contain like any others, use dedicated executor for component nodes. For example, the subscriptions and timers of a control loop can be prioritized over all other subscriptions and standard services of a node. We do not suggest any changes to the multi-threaded executor container, nor are we suggesting to merge them into a single component manager, that would be feature creep and it makes sense for those to be separate executables. @gezp thanks for the contribution ! Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account. In the simplest case, the main thread is used for processing the incoming messages and events of a Node by calling rclcpp::spin(..) as follows: The call to spin(node) basically expands to an instantiation and invocation of the Single-Threaded Executor, which is the simplest Executor: By invoking spin() of the Executor instance, the current thread starts querying the rcl and middleware layers for incoming messages and other events and calls the corresponding callback functions until the node shuts down. 16 December 2020. We could of course create our own container to use locally, but this has clear reuse as people want to compose their systems into a single process. In rclpy, the same is done by calling the constructor of the specific callback group type. 19 October 2021. as a class member), or otherwise the executor wont be able to trigger the callbacks. could not find any instance of Visual Studio. rclcpp/executors/cbg_executor/README.md examples_rclcpp_cbg_executor The examples_rclcpp_cbg_executor package provides a demo and test bench for the Callback-group-level Executor concept. In the question there are two nodes. ROS2 rclcpp_multithreaded_executor example rate issue, Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0. ROS 2 allows organizing the callbacks of a node in groups. While the three Executors of rclcpp work well for most applications there are some issues that make them not suitable for real-time applications, which require well-defined execution times, determinism, and custom control over the execution order. In the following, we focus on the C++ Client Library rclcpp. ROS2 rclcpp_multithreaded_executor example rate issue ros2 multi-threaded MultiThreadedExecutor create_wall_timer asked Feb 12 '21 piri 1 1 2 1 Hello, I'm trying to use and understand something more about ROS2 multi-thread executor, how it works and now it must properly used. rclcpp This repository contains the source code for the ROS Client Library for C++ package, included with a standard install of any ROS 2 distro. Currently, i'm trying to support composed bringup for Nav2 stack, and i have done some works about manually composed bringup (Compile-time composition) of Nav2, which performs better than Normal bringup , in addition, i find a problem that a large multi-threaded executor consumes higher cpu(increase 30%-50%) than a bunch of single-threaded executors , you can find some details here: https://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-composition/22175. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: This should be a parameterized option with the defaults for the current behavior of a single single-threaded executor. Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account. Reentrant: Callbacks of this group may be executed in parallel. The examples_rclcpp_wait_set package provides several examples for the use of this user-level wait set mechanism. Virtual event. Currently, rclcpp provides three Executor types, derived from a shared parent class: The Multi-Threaded Executor creates a configurable number of threads to allow for processing multiple messages or events in parallel. Michael Phnl et al. (for MultiThreadedExecutor and Multiple SingleThreadedExecutor). This issue has been mentioned on ROS Discourse. I thought those two callback funcs would be executed at the same time, but in fact, one of them would not be executed until 10 seconds after the other started. And it is a single parameter and code change (much simpler than what @gezp proposes above). from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * I also confirmed that all messages from publisher are received on subscription. ros2executors . - for example by the subscription options: All subscriptions, timers, etc. that are created without the indication of a callback group are assigned to the default callback group. 3.main I wrote two Subscription in a node, and at each callback function sleep for 10 seconds. // This is the case where a loaned message is taken from the middleware via. If I don't specify the number of threads is it able to understand the number of callback group and timer autonomously? @ivanpauno @wjwwood @clalancette any opinion? The callback group must be stored throughout execution of the node (eg. ROS2Publisher-Subscriber executorspinexecutorexecutoradd_nodeAnyExecutable. // we should ignore this copy of the message. i create a publisher and subscriber on a topic with message geometry_msgs::msg::PolygonStamped (the num of points is: 10000, publishing rate is 100hz) for three cases, and get result here: you could reproduce similar result by running python scripts/test_use_dedicated_executors.py in this package. If the processing time of the callbacks is shorter than the period with which messages and events occur, the Executor basically processes them in FIFO order. Higher priority callbacks may be blocked by lower priority callbacks. On the loading of component nodes, use that value to either create a new executor to add the node to or add it to the single main executor Well occasionally send you account related emails. No built-in control over triggering for specific topics. These issues have been partially addressed by the following developments: rclcpp WaitSet: The WaitSet class of rclcpp allows waiting directly on subscriptions, timers, service servers, action servers, etc. Anyway thank you for your answer. 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Maintainers Shane Loretz Aditya Pande Authors Jacob Hassold README No README found. ROS 2 Executor: How to make it efficient, real-time and deterministic?, Advanced Execution Management with ROS 2, Response-Time Analysis of ROS2 Processing Chains under Reservation-Based Scheduling. This semantics was first described in a paper by Casini et al. The wait set mechanism reports only very little information about these queues to the Executor. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2021-9-16/22372/1. @allenh1 Is this feature supported through launch file? That's not very flexible and configurable and afterall Nav2 is a framework rather than a standalone solution, do dynamically loading is more in line of what we need. Furthermore, it implements ideas of the Logical Execution Time (LET) semantics. i make a simple package to test. Virtual event. Have a question about this project? here is the code. Since Galactic, the interface of the Executor base class in rclcpp has been refined by a new function add_callback_group(..). check setuptools version by running pip3 list | findstr setuptools if output is setuptools 58.2.0 then go to 3rd step otherwise follow through 2nd step we need to downgrade the setuptools to 58.2.0 by running this pip3 install setuptools==58.2.0 after this follow the blogpost here https://blog.csdn.net/tanmx219/article/details/126211384. (personally i would like to figure out and improve MultiThreadedExecutor in the future.) Companies I spoke with expressed interest in this as well, as they are currently manually composing their systems because they cannot dynamically compose them to use N-single threaded executors that they need. https://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-composition/22175, Support a bunch of SingleThreadedExecutor with dedicated thread for each component nodes, https://github.com/gezp/navigation2/blob/49bfd34c985a2a0928a87d91cd01cc28fba44038/nav2_composition/src/main.cpp#L81-L89, https://github.com/gezp/ros2_topic_performance, https://github.com/gezp/rclcpp/commit/3d48c0aacdc62c1ab688d1147679157ad578927f, support dedicated executor for component nodes, On the loading of component nodes, use that value to either create a new executor to add the node to or add it to the single main executor, On unloading of component nodes, if the parameter is true, we will remove that node from the executor and delete it along with the component, the thread num of multi-threaded-executor equals to the num of nodes, in this case, thread num = 2. import, foxyThat means replace the with .galactic. By configuring the underlying threads using the operating system scheduler, specific callbacks can be prioritized over other callbacks. For tips on how to use callback groups efficiently, see Using Callback Groups. Does anyone have any ideas? Please disregard those parts of this requested change, Zhengpeng is thinking a little bigger than I think this problem warrants. The Executor uses this information to process the messages (including services and actions) in a round-robin fashion - but not in FIFO order. Callbacks of different callback groups may always be executed in parallel. in other word, create a SingleThreadedExecutor with dedicated thread for each component nodes. for example, application has a workload to finish. in all cases where nodes are created and executed without an explicit main function. I'm using Linux 5.8.0-41-generic #46~20.04.1-Ubuntu. what do you think? composition with a multi-threaded-executor (thread num=2) consumes higher cpu than normal standalone case, which seems like a bit strange. @gezp here is what i got on my local environment. So I think the best answer is not either-or, but both! It can be used to implement deterministic, user-defined processing sequences, possibly processing multiple messages from different subscriptions together. In detail, it only reports whether there are any messages for a certain topic or not. instead of using an Executor. My fault. I tried to specify 2 and the example seems to publish at a constant rate of 20Hz. rclcpp executors MultiThreadedExecutor Public Member Functions| Protected Member Functions| List of all members rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutor Class Reference #include <multi_threaded_executor.hpp> Inheritance diagram for rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutor: [legend] Collaboration diagram for rclcpp::executors::MultiThreadedExecutor: We'd like to be able to have this N-single threaded container option available to us so we can do dynamic composed bring up in Nav2 rather than having to manually compose them in a process. 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