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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551308
Pages 432 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Bernardo Ronquillo Japón Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Physical Robot Assembly and Testing
Assembling the Robot Unit Testing of GoPiGo3 Getting Started with ROS Section 2: Robot Simulation with Gazebo
Creating the Virtual Two-Wheeled ROS Robot Simulating Robot Behavior with Gazebo Section 3: Autonomous Navigation Using SLAM
Programming in ROS - Commands and Tools Robot Control and Simulation Virtual SLAM and Navigation Using Gazebo SLAM for Robot Navigation Section 4: Adaptive Robot Behavior Using Machine Learning
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Inspecting the GoPiGo3 model in ROS with RViz

Now, it's time to start working with ROS! You are going to discover roslaunch, the ROS command that allows us to launch several nodes in one shot, avoiding the need to open separate Terminals, as we did in the previous chapter.

Given that you already cloned the code repository of this book, the files that we will deal with are inside the Chapter4_RViz_basics folder of the repository, and all of them are part of the rviz_basics ROS package, as defined within package.xml. The file structure of this chapter can be seen in the following screenshot of the RoboWare Studio IDE:

You can obtain this tree structure in the Terminal by using the tree bash command:

$ tree ~/catkin_ws/src/book/Chapter4_RViz_basics

Bear in mind that it does not come with Ubuntu by default and that you may need to install it:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt...
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