ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Testing the Leap Motion ROS driver

If everything has been installed properly, we can test it using a few commands.

First, launch the Leap Motion driver or control panel using the following command:

    $ sudo LeapControlPanel

After launching the command, you can verify that the device is working by opening the Visualizer application. If it's working well, you can launch the ROS driver using the following command:

    $ roslaunch leap_motion sensor_sender.launch

If it's working properly, you will get topics with this:

    $ rostopic list

Figure 9: Leap ROS driver topics

If you can see rostopic/leapmotion/data in the list, you can confirm that the driver ...