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ROS Robotics By Example

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175193
Pages 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

ROS Robotics By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Getting Started with ROS Creating Your First Two-Wheeled ROS Robot (in Simulation) Driving Around with TurtleBot Navigating the World with TurtleBot Creating Your First Robot Arm (in Simulation) Wobbling Robot Arms Using Joint Control Making a Robot Fly Controlling Your Robots with External Devices Flying a Mission with Crazyflie Extending Your ROS Abilities Index

Which robots are using ROS?


There is a long list of robots on the ROS wiki website http://wiki.ros.org/Robots, which use ROS. For example, we are using four different robots in this book to provide you with an experience of a wide range of ROS capabilities. These robots are as follows:

  • TurtleBot, a mobile robot

  • Baxter, a friendly two-armed robot

  • Crazyflie and Bebop, flying robots

The images of these robots are in the following figures:

TurtleBot 2

Baxter in the authors' laboratory

Of course, not everyone has the opportunity to use real robots such as Baxter. However, there is good news! Using the ROS Gazebo software, you can simulate Baxter as well as many other robots whose models are provided for Gazebo. We will simulate TurtleBot using Gazebo and actually design our own mobile robot in the upcoming chapters of this book.

Bebop and Crazyflie

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