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Diagnostics
Description: Illustrates how to retrieve kobuki diagnostics.Keywords: kobuki, turtlebot, diagnostics
Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
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Contents
Overview
Kobuki provides typical diagnostics information easily accessible with the Robot Monitor GUI. Up to now the following information is presented:
- robot-laptop link watchdog
- robot battery status
- sensors: bumper, cliff, wheel drop, motor current, gyro
- input ports: analog, digital
Robot Monitor GUI
Install it, if you didn't before:
> sudo apt-get install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rqt-robot-monitor
To launch the Robot Monitor GUI type:
> rosrun rqt_robot_monitor rqt_robot_monitor
You should see something like:
