Joystick operations

[markusbuchholz]

Hi @evan-palmer , I wonder if the joystick, which can be launched by setting the joy flag to true, needs to be connected to the topic 'cmd_vel' or if it can be launched and should work as the following command ?:

ros2 launch blue_bringup bluerov2_heavy.launch.py use_sim:=true use_joy:=true

Thanks!

[evan-palmer]

Hey @markusbuchholz! I'm working on putting together a tutorial on teleoperation here. My plan is to have that ready for you tomorrow!

[evan-palmer]

Alright, here is most of the tutorial. It does reference the new changes that I am wrapping up on 33-feature-ros2-control, but I think it should answer most of your questions.

[markusbuchholz]

Hei @evan-palmer,
I appreciate your effort in providing such detailed information on how to manage the joystick.

I would definitely recommend everyone to use your framework since it works out of the box!

It is very inspiring and excellently done!

PS. As for my purpose, I map ROS topics (functionality) directly to Mavlink as I have to support also other features and BlueBoat.

Thanks!

[evan-palmer]

Thank you for your kind words Markus! If you are interested in submitting a PR with support for the BlueBoat that would be an awesome contribution!

[markusbuchholz]

Yes @evan-palmer , I am interested because I currently work with "tandem" BlueRov-BlueBoat. I cannot promise when I will contribute, but I work with the case on a regular basis.