Odin Rqtclose -

In many robotics contexts, "Odin" refers to:

In some cases, "Odin" is a side-effect of a misspelled command or a legacy script where odin runs as a wrapper for rqt.

The primary goal of odin rqtclose is to automate the closing of an rqt window without requiring manual mouse interaction. This is useful for: odin rqtclose

odin rqtclose [options]

ODIN nodes often output high-frequency data (e.g., 100 Hz IMU, 30 Hz camera). If you use rqt_plot to visualize multiple topics without throttling, rqt may consume so much memory that the OS kills either rqt or the ODIN node (via OOM killer). This can appear as an unexplained "close."

Unset or broken ROS_MASTER_URI or ROS_IP variables can cause rqt to lose connection mid-shutdown. When the user closes the GUI, rqt tries to send a goodbye message to the master, fails, and outputs an odin rqtclose (since Odin initiated the session). In many robotics contexts, "Odin" refers to:

Many rqt plugins expose a ROS service to request shutdown. The command would call that service:

odin rqtclose --window /rqt/my_diagnostic_view

Behind the scenes, it might call:

rosservice call /rqt/my_diagnostic_view/close "{}"

This is not a built-in ROS command. ROS does not have a binary called rqtclose. Instead, this is likely:

Thus, when you search for "odin rqtclose", what you’re really trying to solve is: Why does my custom ROS GUI (launched via an Odin process) fail to close properly, and what does the 'rqtclose' message indicate? In some cases, "Odin" is a side-effect of

rqt runs as a ROS node. If the Odin node has latched topics or lingering publishers, the rqtclose routine will wait indefinitely. The error message "rqtclose" is sometimes a custom print from the Odin node when it fails to unregister from the master.