Launching gui_based_control vs. launch_ctrk_interface? Or are these not mutually exclusive?

[sunshineinsandiego]

Hi - Following the instructions here to try to launch GUI control of the PSM arms / ECM, but not understanding how exactly to do this.

(1) It is written:

"Simply run the launch_crtk_interface.py script. This script will consequently use the psm_arm.py, ecm_arm.py and scene.py scripts and create ROS topics to publish and receive commands."

-- My belief is that I should run $python3 launch_crtk_interface.py in a 3rd terminal with my other two terminals running $ roscore and $ ./ambf_simulator --launch_file <surgical_robotics_challenge>/launch.yaml -l 0,1,3,4,14,15 -p 120 -t 1 --override_max_comm_freq 120.

(2) Then I should run $ gui_based_control.py in a 4th terminal to access the GUIs that will interface with the ROS topics launched in by the launch_crtk_interface.py script?

OR are these two separate concepts: the launch_crtk_interface.py should be used with ROS messages while the gui_based_control.py already includes the interface with the simulated PSMs/ECM?

Thanks!

[adnanmunawar]

Can you please ask this in the surgical_robotics_challenge repo :)

[sunshineinsandiego]

Of course, my apologies!