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I believe you may need to start with the general ROS overview and tutorials here.

To answer your question, you would more likely want to communicate directly with the base_controller node. I imagine turtlebot_teleop_keyboard does not have a subscriber that would relay to base_controller. So no, you cannot send a message through it.

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