Engineer control node

Overview

ROS node for "Engineer" robot control through Qt libraries for UDP protocol.

Features

Node provides "Engineer" robot control using <geometry_msgs::Twist> type topic.

Usage

First of all, change following line in CMakeLists.txt:

list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH /home/aufarz/Qt/5.9.3/gcc_64/lib/cmake)

with proper path to your Qt 5 folder.

Then make it:

catkin_make

Launch ROS Master:

roscore

Launch the only node from this repo:

rosrun ros_qt_controller twist_control_node

Use rostopic echo command to publish messages into input topic:

rostopic pub /cmd_vel_mock geometry_msgs/Twist '[0.3, 0.0, 0.0]' '[0.0, 0.0, 0.0]'

Sample command will make robot move forward by the speed of 0.3 m/s.