Teleoperate your robot by publishing geometry_msgs/Twist or geometry_msgs/msg/Twist messages on a given topic back to your live ROS stack.

To use the control pad to teleoperate your connected robot, you must be connected to your robot via a native or Rosbridge connection.

For more information on how to connect to a live ROS stack, check out our supported data sources.

Settings

General
Publish rate	Rate of publishing your geometry_msgs/Twist or geometry_msgs/msg/Twist messages
Topic	Topic to publish live geometry_msgs/Twist or geometry_msgs/msg/Twist messages to
Up button	Field (linear or angular x, y, or z) and value to publish when pressing the up button
Down button	Field (linear or angular x, y, or z) and value to publish when pressing the down button
Left button	Field (linear or angular x, y, or z) and value to publish when pressing the left button
Right button	Field (linear or angular x, y, or z) and value to publish when pressing the right button

Supported messages

To use this panel, your data source must provide messages conforming to one of the following supported schemas.

Twist

framework	schema
ROS 1	geometry_msgs/Twist
ROS 2	geometry_msgs/msg/Twist