ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Step 7 – Building and loading plugins

After creating these files, build a package using catkin_make. If the build is successful, we can load the plugin in RViz itself. Take RViz and load the panel by going to Menu Panel | Add New Panel; we will get a panel like the following:

Figure 8: Loading teleop node from RViz

If we load the Teleop plugin from the list, we will get a panel like the following:

Figure 9: Loading teleop node from RViz

We can put the Teleop Topic name and values inside the Linear Velocity and Angular Velocity and we can echo ...