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Getting started with MATLAB

MATLAB is a multi-platform numerical computing environment widely used by industries, universities, and research centers. MATLAB was born as a mathematical software, but now it offers a lot of additional packages for different areas, such as control design, plotting, image processing, and robotics. Every year, two new versions of MATLAB are released. The first one is called XXXXa (where XXXX is the year of the release) and it is released in March, while the second one is called XXXXb and it is released in September. In this chapter, we assume the installation of the MATLAB 2020b version. MATLAB is a proprietary product of MathWorks, and it is not free software. Usually, free licenses are distributed to students and academic institutions. You can use MATLAB on Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS. After you have launched it, the main window of MATLAB will appear with its default layout, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition - Third Edition

Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801071024

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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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Jonathan Cacace

Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also a member of PRISMA Lab where he is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.
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