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RethinkRobotics / baxter_simulator

Gazebo Simulation interface for the Baxter Research Robot
http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/wiki/Baxter_Simulator
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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No support for Joystick devices #48

Closed rethink-imcmahon closed 8 years ago

rethink-imcmahon commented 9 years ago

After running

rosrun baxter_examples joint_position_joystick.py

the example just waits for input commands. This is due to the fact that External devices like joystick, Xbox and Ps3 are not supported.

rethink-imcmahon commented 8 years ago

Nope! This seems to work with the simulator. It's just a bit confusing, since you need to have both the ROS joy node running, and the joint_position_joystick node running, which can be accomplished as follows:

$ roslaunch baxter_examples joint_position_joystick.launch joystick:=<joystick_type>

where the joystick_type can be xbox, logitech, or ps3. See http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/wiki/Joint_Position_Example for more details