joystick_drivers: joy | ps3joy | spacenav | spacenav_node | wiimote
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Package Summary
A node for publishing the state of the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 6DOF joystick.
- Author: Stuart Glaser, Blaise Gassend
- License: BSD
- Repository: ros-pkg
- Source: svn https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/joystick_drivers/trunk/spacenav_node
Supported Hardware
This package should support any hardware that is supported by the upstream spacenav package.
API Stability
This package's API is expected to be stable.
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spacenav_node
spacenav_node provides output from the spacenav driver over ROS.Published Topics
spacenav/offset (geometry_msgs/Vector3)- Publishes the linear component of the joystick's position. Approximately normalized to a range of -1 to 1.
- Publishes the angular component of the joystick's position. Approximately normalized to a range of -1 to 1.
- Combines offset and rot_offset into a single message.
- Outputs the spacenav's six degrees of freedom and its buttons as a joystick message.






