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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
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
Profile icon Lentin Joseph

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

Installing ROS-Industrial packages of universal robotic arm


The Universal Robots (http://www.universal-robots.com/) is an industrial robot manufacturer based in Denmark. The company mainly manufactures three arms UR3, UR5, and UR10. The robots are shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7: UR-3, UR-5, and UR-10 robots

The smaller one is UR-3, UR-5 is the one in the center, and the big one is UR-10. The specifications of these robots are given in the following table:

Robot

UR-3

UR-5

UR-10

Working radius

500 mm

850 mm

1300 mm

Payload

3 kg

5 kg

10 kg

Weight

11 kg

18.4 kg

28.9 kg

Footprint

118 mm

149 mm

190 mm

We are mainly discussing ROS interfacing of UR-5 and UR-10 using ROS-I packages.

We can install the packages of these robots and can work with the MoveIt! interface and simulation interface of these robots in Gazebo.

Installing the ROS interface of universal robots

We can install the latest packages of the universal robot using the source installation.

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