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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551798
Pages 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction to ROS and Its Package Management Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack Working with Pluginlib, Nodelets, and Gazebo Plugins Writing ROS Controllers and Visualization Plugins Interfacing I/O Boards, Sensors, and Actuators to ROS Programming Vision Sensors using ROS, Open-CV, and PCL Building and Interfacing Differential Drive Mobile Robot Hardware in ROS Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS-MoveIt! ROS for Industrial Robots Troubleshooting and Best Practices in ROS Index

Summary

ROS is now a trending software framework among roboticists. Gaining knowledge in ROS is essential in the upcoming years if you are planning to build your career as a robotics engineer. In this chapter, we have gone through the basics of ROS mainly to refresh the concepts if you have already learned ROS. We discussed the necessity of learning ROS and how it excels among the current robotics software platforms. We went through the basic concepts such as ROS Master, Parameter server, and roscore and saw the explanation of the working of roscore. After discussing the internal working of roscore, we discussed each ROS concept, such as ROS topics, services, messages, and actionlib by illustrating examples. After demonstrating the working of each concept, we uploaded the package to GitHub and created a wiki page for the package. In the next chapter, we will discuss ROS robot modeling using URDF and xacro and will design some robot models.

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Lentin Joseph
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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