As mentionned in the tutorial , the command that calls the axclient tool is in the general case :
rosrun actionlib axclient.py /<name_of_action_server>
Does <name_of_action_server> here refer to the name of an action-server package ? Because later when we tried to execute the command we typed in the first shell :
roslaunch ardrone_as action_server.launch
and in the second shell :
rosrun actionlib_tools axclient.py /ardrone_action_server
shouldn’t the second command be instead the following ?
rosrun actionlib_tools axclient.py /ardrone_as
idk what “ardrone_action_server” is . I looked at the script , launch file and node in the package ardrone_as , none of them is name like that!
Hi @mouidsakka01 ,
No, it does not refer to the package name. The name refers to the name of the action server that is started and running in the package. Package name can be different from action server name.
You can see an action server when you do rostopic list
Action servers usually have 5 nodes:
action_server_name/goal
action_server_name/cancel
action_server_name/feedback
action_server_name/result
action_server_name/status
Yes, you are correct. This should be the command to run the action using the axclient.
This command: rosrun actionlib_tools axclient.py /ardrone_action_server is probably as typo error or a copy-paste error.
Regards,
Girish