Robot development

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Hi Isha,

Thanks for the reply

Because i am really new to ROS, i am not too sure myself what i am to look out for. My end goal for this project is to move a physical robot using a joystick. I guess the problem here is the hardware interfacing part where i need to write the code to interface with ROS control for the robot to get a certain message for it to be moving?

If your robot doesn't support ROS already, you'd have to write the hardware interface yourself. The guide I've linked walks you through it pretty well.

For the rest it depends on what 'moving your robot' really means. Is it a single arm? A biped? A car?

If you haven't done them already, I'd highly recommend doing all the tutorials from the wiki. All of them, it will save you have to ask a lot of basic questions in the future.

When you have done that, look for packages that already exist and are related to your problem. Such as http://wiki.ros.org/joy

Hi Isha,

Yes i have already the basic tutorials from the ROS link, my moving robot is a cart/trolley powered up by roboteq motor drivers. So right now i am trying to write the hardware interfacing part for this motor to be able to move the cart.