Long initializing time when using the Robotics System Toolbox

Hello,

When I use blocks from the Robotics System Toolbox, such as ROS Publish or subscription blocks, the initialization time is approximately 30 seconds in the simplest model (subscribe -> Bus Selector -> Display). Everything else is very fast.

A friend of mine has a non-measurable initialization time on a weaker computer. I use Matlab R2017a and the ROS Indigo Gazebo VM on a laptop with an Intel Core i7-6500U with 16 GB of RAM.

Is there anything I can do to make it faster.

Thank you for your help and happy Easter! Benedict

Answer 1

[Sebastian Castro]

Hi Benedict,

There was a bug with rosinit initialization times in R2017a, specifically for Windows 10 machines (is that what you're using?).

This bug report has been released externally, so you can download a patch to get it fixed: https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1530194

- Sebastian

[Benedict Bauer]

Hello Sebastian,

thank you for this answer. The patch helped a lot! Now it is even faster as that of my friend.

Best regards Benedict