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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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ROS-Industrial robot client package


The industrial robot client nodes are responsible for sending robot position/trajectory data from ROS MoveIt! to the industrial robot controller. The industrial robot client converts the trajectory data to simple_message and communicates to the robot controller using the simple_message protocol. The industrial robot controller running a server and industrial robot client nodes are connecting to this server and start communicating with this server.

Designing industrial robot client nodes

The industrial_robot_client package contains various classes to implement industrial robot client nodes. The main functionalities that a client should have is, it can update the robot current state from the robot controller, and also it can send joint trajectories/joint position message to the controller.

There are two main nodes that are responsible for getting robot state and sending joint trajectory/position values.

  • The robot_state node: This node is responsible for publishing...

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Published in: Dec 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783551798

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Lentin Joseph

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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