Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Teleoperation package

key_teleop (http://wiki.ros.org/key_teleop) is a ROS-contributed package that provides a very simple mechanism for controlling a robot using the arrow keys of the keyboard. Clone the source code and install the package on your laptop as usual:

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src$ git clone https://github.com/ros-teleop/teleop_tools$ cd .. && catkin_make

Another two packages are available here that are also part of the teleop_tools bundle:

• joy_teleop, a generic joystick interface for topics and actions
• mouse_teleop, a pointing device (for example, mouse, touchpad, and so on) teleoperation utility

Since you have built the whole repository, both of these are available to you.