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I ran into a weird behavior (i.e. crashing my robot uncontrollable into a wall) because while operating the robot, the battery shutdown. Due to the autorepeat function inside the joy_node, the last command was infinitely repeated until crash.
The question here is, if there is any option for the xbox controller to find out if signal is lost or still available.
I had a similar problem with the xbox controller publishing garbage messages on startup and messing things up. I switched to the xboxdrv driver and have no more problems. It looks like it also publishes a no-buttons-pushed joy message when I take the battery out.
NOTE: It switches the pad buttons to be axes, so you'll have to change up your nodes using the joy message. EDIT: I hadn't read far enough in the man page, but it's highly configurable.
There is no such option as far as I know. If the connection is lost, the last valid command just keeps being sent.
A workaround would be a deadman switch that needs to be toggled. So basically before processing a joystick command, you check if the deadman switch has been toggled during a certain interval (maybe 0.2 secs). If it has not been toggled you dont send the joystick command to the robot. In that case if you lose connection it is the same as if you don't toggle the deadman. The side-effect is that you always have to toggle the deadman switch while driving the robot with your joystick.
Asked: 2015-11-04 10:44:09 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 30 '15
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