I just tried out a few things from your pioneer_control package and I get the same behavior I was seeing before. -Dan On 4/21/10 7:13 PM, Dan Lazewatsky wrote: > Hi Tucker, > I think that should be enough to get me going. > > Thanks! > -Dan > > On 4/21/10 6:57 PM, Tucker Hermans wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> I send the MotorState command of 4 and have no problems. >> >> I have a teleop keyboard port which I use for communicating with the >> p3dx that you can find here: >> github.com/trhermans/AffLearning/tree/master/pioneer_control/ >> >> >> Note: the launch file is setup for a p3dx with a PTZ connected to an >> onboard computer and uses the probe camera driver to get the video >> stream. >> >> I have only been testing the changes to the p2os package on a p3dx >> with an onboard computer, I don't think this should have any issues, >> but it could. Let me know if the keyboard operation gives the same >> problems you have now and I'll try and help debug it. >> >> -Tucker >> >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Dan Lazewatsky >> > wrote: >> >> Hi all - >> I know this has been discussed here a bit, but not in much detail. >> We have a Pioneer3dx that we'd like to get up and running again. I >> downloaded and compiled the p2os package which seems to be able to >> successfully connect and communicate with the robot using a serial to >> USB adapter. However, I'm having trouble getting the motors to do >> anything sensible. The robot's motor self-test looks like it >> works fine, >> but sending cmd_vel, all I can get is extremely slow, jerky movement >> forward or backwards (no turning). I enabled the motors with: >> >> rostopic pub cmd_motor_state -1 p2os/MotorState 1 (I also tried 4 >> instead of 1 which was mentioned in a previous discussion) >> >> This feels like a communication problem between the motor >> commands p2os >> is sending and the robot, but I don't know what's going on. Any >> ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> -Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >