joystick_drivers: joy | ps3joy | spacenav | spacenav_node | wiimote

Package Summary

A node for publishing the state of the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 6DOF joystick.

A SpaceNavigator

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.

Nodes

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.
spacenav/rot_offset (geometry_msgs/Vector3)
  • Publishes the angular component of the joystick's position. Approximately normalized to a range of -1 to 1.
spacenav/twist (geometry_msgs/Twist)
  • Combines offset and rot_offset into a single message.
spacenav/joy (joy/Joy)
  • Outputs the spacenav's six degrees of freedom and its buttons as a joystick message.

Wiki: spacenav_node (last edited 2010-08-05 01:17:46 by MeloneeWise)