How to do it…

  1. Create an actionlib_tutorials package with the following dependencies or download it from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/kbipin/Robot-Operating-System-Cookbook):
$ cd <workspace>/src 
$ catkin_create_pkg actionlib_tutorials actionlib message_generation roscpp rospy std_msgs actionlib_msgs 
  1. First, define the action which consists of goal, result, and feedback messages. These are generated automatically from the .action file.
  2. Create an actionlib_tutorials/action/Fibonacci.action file with the following contents:
#goal definition 
int32 order 
--- 
#result definition 
int32[] sequence 
--- 
#feedback 
int32[] sequence 
  1. To automatically generate the message files during the creation process, the following elements need to ...

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