/robot_face/look_at#

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/robot_face/look_at Quick Facts

Category

Expressive interactions

Message type

geometry_msgs/PointStamped

Direction

🖐️ this topic is protected: you should not have to write/read from it directly!

Sets the direction of eyes. If you want to control the gaze direction, use instead /look_at. See Controlling the attention and gaze of the robot for details.

Quick snippets#

Publish data on the topic#
$ rostopic pub /robot_face/look_at geometry_msgs/PointStamped # press Tab twice to complete

How to use in your code#

Publish to the topic using Python#
 1import rospy
 2from geometry_msgs.msg import PointStamped
 3
 4if __name__ == "__main__":
 5    rospy.init_node("publisher")
 6
 7    pub = rospy.Publisher("/robot_face/look_at", PointStamped, queue_size=10)
 8    rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10Hz
 9    msg = PointStamped()
10
11    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
12
13        # check http://docs.ros.org/en/api/geometry_msgs/html/msg/PointStamped.html
14        # for the msg structure
15        # msg.data = ...
16        pub.publish(msg)
17
18        rate.sleep()