texas Documentation

texas: Brings up and controls Dallas Bot

• Author(s): Dallas Goecker, Kevin Watts
• Review Status: unreviewed
• Review Notes:
• Homepage: http://pr.willowgarage.com/wiki/texas
• Dependency Tree

texas package contains the descriptions and launch files needed to operate the telepresence robot known as Texas.

Code API

Launching Texas:

roslaunch texas.launch
roslaunch ps3_drive.launch

Driving Texas using a PS3 joystick connected through USB to a local computer. From the local computer:

sudo chmod 666 /dev/input/js0
roscd joy
./joy

The chmod command is only needed once after every time the joystick is plugged in.

ROS API