How can I control Tello in Gazebo using a USB joystick? #7
Description
Hi, thank you for this awesome project! 🙌
I'm currently working on simulating the Tello drone in Gazebo, and everything is running fine — I can see the drone in Gazebo, receive /drone1/image_raw from the camera, and send velocity commands via /drone1/cmd_vel.
However, I would like to control the drone using a USB joystick (e.g., Xbox controller), but I'm having trouble getting joy_node to publish any messages.
Here’s what I’ve done:
I confirmed the joystick works using: sudo jstest /dev/input/js0
and it shows axis/button values correctly.
But I'm not able to control the Tello in Gazebo using a USB joystick, and I’m not sure how to set it up. Could someone please guide me on how to properly connect and use a joystick for controlling the Tello?
Other info:
ROS 2 distro: Galactic
Running on WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04
I have added my user to the input group, and the device /dev/input/js0 has the right permissions.