Teleop Package

If you prefer to control your robot to help it localize itself as you did in the lab, you would need to add the teleop node to your package. Thanks to the ROS community, we could use ros-teleop package to send command to the robot using keyboard or controller.

Clone the ros-teleop package to your src folder:

cd /home/workspace/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/ros-teleop/teleop_twist_keyboard

Build the package and source the setup script:

cd ..
catkin_make
source devel/setup.bash

Now you could run the teleop script as is described in the README file:

rosrun teleop_twist_keyboard teleop_twist_keyboard.py