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When the work becoming hard, it’s time to directly access to a terminal to the robot! This command will always give you the access to control nanosaur even if anything is installed on your computer!

How to do it?

nanosaur robot terminal

The terminal will show something like the picture below:

nanosaur robot terminal
nanosaur robot terminal command

From this prompt you have full access to a terminal with ROS 2 installed and a full diagnostic access to the robot.

Example usage

Example you can read all topics running on your robot or open the rqt_graph to know if all node are well connected and running on your robot.

Topic lists

ros2 topic list lists all active topics in your ROS 2 system. Topics are the communication channels through which ROS nodes exchange messages.

ros2 topic list
nanosaur topics
nanosaur topics

rqt_graph

launches a graphical tool that visualizes the ROS 2 computation graph, showing nodes and the topics they communicate through.

What Does rqt_graph Show?

  • Nodes (ROS 2 processes)
  • Topics (communication channels between nodes)
  • Publishers & Subscribers (who is sending and receiving data)
rqt_graph
nanosaur rqt graph
nanosaur rqt graph

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