autonomousvision
Timeout signification and impact
Hi, First of all, thank you for your receptivity and your quick answers to issues :)
Referring to leaderboard_evaluator_local.py (see the attached screen shot), and referring to this particular line of code: parser.add_argument ('--timeout', default="60.0", help='Set the CARLA client timeout value in seconds'), I have the following questions regarding the variable 'timeout':
1- What is the significance of the timeout variable? For instance, does the timeout relate to a case where the ego vehicle remains blocked without performing any action, and after the timeout period elapses, the code exits execution?
2- What is the impact of varying the value of the timeout variable? Specifically, how does increasing or decreasing this value affect the system’s behaviour?
This timeout which is the client timeout has nothing to do with the agent timeout (which is not an argument). This value is used by a watchdog to determined if the simulation has crashed. If the simulation / code doesn't crash than increasing it has no effect. We sometimes set it higher on servers where CARLA takes a long time to start.
