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Multiple robot control using joystick

asked 2016-10-18 01:24:26 -0500

FAIZ
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Hello everyone, I am new to ROS and was having a model for robot simulation in gazebo, the simulation has four robots and I want to control them individually using four joysticks to four USB ports. Though I was able to control one using the joystick with code given following link

https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/j...

by publishing on cmd_vel, I want to publish on other cmd_vel on other namespaces so that other robots can be controlled. What changes do I have to make in the codes or scale the code to solve my problem.

Thanks in advance

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answered 2016-10-18 05:01:26 -0500

Sebastian Kasperski

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I think you will have to start this node 4 times then, one for each joystick, with the correct USB port set for each. You can start each in the namespace of the robot that you want to control.

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Thanks Sebastian for the reply. I tried doing that and replacing cmd_vel with namespace/cmd_vel for other bots. I was not able to control other bots. Can you please explain the code to me... Thanks in advance.

FAIZ ( 2016-10-18 09:56:46 -0500 )edit

I haven't used this specific node, so I cannot give any details. Have you checked "rqt_graph" for all connections? Next you should check the joy-topics and cmd-topics with "rostopic echo".

Sebastian Kasperski ( 2016-10-19 02:35:14 -0500 )edit

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