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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

Generating MoveIt! configuration package using Setup Assistant tool


The MoveIt! Setup Assistant is a graphical user interface for configuring any robot to MoveIt!. Basically, this tool generates SRDF, configuration files, launch files, and scripts generating from the robot URDF model, which is required to configure the move_group node.

The SRDF file contains details about the arm joints, end effector joints, virtual joints, and also the collision link pairs which are configured during the MoveIt! configuration process using the Setup Assistant tool.

The configuration file contains details about the kinematic solvers, joint limits, controllers, and so on, which are also configured and saved during the configuration process.

Using the generated configuration package of the robot, we can work with motion planning in RViz without the presence of a real robot or simulation interface.

Let's start the configuration wizard, and we can see the step by step procedure to build the configuration package...

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