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Control your robot with a joystick in ROS

In other tutorials, I showed how to get access to the joystick and how to code with that. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to do that without writing any line of code. First, install the required packages:

Now call the following

  This will publish the topic “/joy_node” which […]

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Controlling your robot with joystick and reading data from it

First, install the necessary package:

make sure your joystick is working:

also, make sure your controller has correct permissions:

The permission on the last column must be rw, if it “–” like this:

then correct the permission:

run the Joy node and roscore:

The joystick data are being published under

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