system_error_monitor is reporting vehicle_state_report msg timeout during planning simulation initialization

[ahmeddesokyebrahim]

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• I've read the contribution guidelines.
• I've searched other issues and no duplicate issues were found.
• I'm convinced that this is not my fault but a bug.

Description

Part of:

• Reduce excessive error and warning logs on Autoware launch #5539

Currently, we are working on a task for fixing and improving Autoware logging system as Autoware creates a noisy debugging environment, making it challenging to identify and address genuine issues.

For more details about the issue, plan how to tackle it, and linked PR, please have a look here.

For this bug, when starting planning simulator and before setting vehicle start and goal pose, system_error_monitor is reporting vehicle_state_report msg timeout as follow :

• [system.system_error_monitor]: vehicle_state_report msg is timeout... (isDataHeartbeatTimeout() at ~/autoware/src/universe/autoware.universe/system/system_error_monitor/src/system_error_monitor_core.cpp:436)

Expected behavior

system_error_monitor is reporting vehicle_state_report msg timeout when data is actually sent then timeout occurs or after countdown during initialization

Actual behavior

system_error_monitor is directly reporting vehicle_state_report msg timeout during initialization

Steps to reproduce

1. Open planning simulator
2. Before setting vehicle start pose and goal pose you can see the aforementioned error message.

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Possible causes

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Additional context

@xmfcx proposed the following :
In real vehicle, this error message could be expected to be seen even when the topic is never received.

I have 2 proposals to address these:

1. System Error Monitor Init Phase

Allow system_error_monitor node to have an initial countdown (user can set the seconds) and It won't report anything for this period. After it ends, it will publish as usual.

This period can be set to something like 10s for planning simulator maybe.

2. Autoware RViz Side Panel Visualization

We could have this somehow shown as red in the future side panel for this topic.
And once this error is gone, it would turn green for this message.

(This panel issue still hasn't been created so we can skip this solution for now.)

Here is the full comment and context I am copying the proposal from for reference

[ahmeddesokyebrahim]

@ito-san : I would highly appreciate if you can have a look and support in this issue or let us know who is the current package owner for system_error_monitor that can support here.

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