Move the real TurtleBot

There are a number of ways to move the TurtleBot using ROS. In this section, we present the following three methods:

  • Using the keyboard
  • Using ROS terminal window commands
  • Using a Python script

Using keyboard teleoperation to move TurtleBot

In a new terminal window, launch the TurtleBot keyboard teleop program on the remote computer:

$ roslaunch turtlebot_teleop keyboard_teleop.launch

The output is as follows:

... logging to /home/turtlebot/.ros/log/b662ab4a-c22e-11e5-b730-6c71d9a711bd/roslaunch-turtlebot-0428-26633.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
started roslaunch server http://192.168.11.123:58861/
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