joypad_wiki
The mbot robot uses a driver provided by selftech company. Unfortunately we don't have access to the driver source code and currently we run a binary. By default the mbot driver runs a teleop node, which you can use by connecting the joypad directly to the robot PC.
- To use the joypad from your laptop, export the ROS_MASTER_URI
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://10.1.15.14:11311
- Launch the joypad node from your PC
roslaunch mbot_teleop_joypad teleop_joypad.launch
- If you use the node from your PC, make sure that DEADMAN button is pressed, see image
- Move the robot around by using the linear and angular speed analog buttons