scout_ros/scout_base

Prerequisites

• Make sure your user account has access to

  • serial port (to communicate with robot base)
  • keyboard input (to use keyboard control)

• Grant access to serial port

# Note: you can use "ls /dev/ttyUSB*" to check the serial port number on your computer
$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0

• Add user to "input" group

$ sudo adduser <your-user-name> input