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Keyboard Teleop

start.lauch is launched to start ROS and required nodes which enables the robot to move.

> roslaunch evarobot_start start.launch

Generic keyboard teleop for twist robots. This node converts keyboard inputs to velocity messages and publish them to cmd_vel topic.

> rosrun teleop_twist_keyboard teleop_twist_keyboard.py

See the on-screen instructions:

Reading from the keyboard  and Publishing to Twist!
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Moving around:
   u    i    o
   j    k    l
   m    ,    .

q/z : increase/decrease max speeds by 10%
w/x : increase/decrease only linear speed by 10%
e/c : increase/decrease only angular speed by 10%
anything else : stop

CTRL-C to quit

Press keys to move, rotate, speed up, speed down, stop the evarobot.