Add statistics collection to `mock_components/GenericSystem`

[AndyZe]

When running simulations, it would be nice to add statistics collection to mock_components/GenericSystem. For example:

• What is the average rate of incoming commands?
• What is the average latency (from message stamp to message received)?
• What is the standard deviation of time between messages?

I think it would also be nice to add a service call to trigger this data collection so it doesn't begin until the user is ready.

I don't have any immediate need for this but it would have been nice on a few projects in the past.

Bonus if this can be done on hardware as well without breaking realtime constraints.

[mcbed]

Hi Andy,
In terms of functionality inside the framework, does it change something to collect this data in a hardware interface rather than in a dedicated controller ? We use some of what you describe here but in a controller version to test our setups what allows us to collect data also if running a real hardware and I am curious if we could expect some different results.

[bmagyar]

For ros-controls/ros2_control#806 we used an instrumented JTC and instrumented mock hardware components

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[christophfroehlich]

This is implemented with ros-controls/ros2_control#2086