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Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming

You're reading from   Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming Design, build, simulate, and prototype complex robots using the Robot Operating System 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836209010
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface
1. Part I: ROS 2 Programming and Simulation FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to ROS 2 3. Getting Started with ROS 2 Programming 4. Implementing ROS 2 Concepts 5. Working with Robot 3D Modeling in ROS 2 6. Simulating Robots in a Realistic Environment 7. Part II: ROS 2 Applications: Navigation, Manipulation, and Control
8. Controlling Robots Using the ros2_control Package 9. Implementing ROS 2 Applications Using BehaviorTree.CPP 10. ROS 2 Navigation Stack: Nav2 11. Robot Manipulation Using MoveIt 2 12. Working with ROS 2 and Perception Stack 13. Part III: Advanced Applications and Machine Learning
14. Aerial Robotics and ROS 2 15. Designing and Programming a DIY Mobile Robot from Scratch 16. Testing, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment with ROS 2 17. Interfacing Large Language Models with ROS 2 18. ROS 2 and Deep Reinforcement Learning 19. Implementing ROS 2 Visualization and Simulation Plugins 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Getting started with Nav2

In this section, we will go through the basic concepts of the Nav2 project, which include the definition, history, architecture, and features of the project. Let’s first look at the Nav2 project in detail.

What is the Nav2 project?

The Nav2 project [1] offers autonomous navigation capabilities for mobile robots based on ROS 2. This project aims to enable navigation for nearly any mobile robot in complex environments. Developers using ROS 2 can readily integrate Nav2 capabilities into their robotics applications.

The Nav2 project offers modules for planning, control, localization, perception, visualization, and more to develop a stable and reliable autonomous system. It includes a collection of pre-built ROS 2 nodes and plugins that developers can use to configure the modules above. Nav2 can accept a list of waypoints as input and dynamically plan the path to these points. It can also avoid obstacles and ultimately compute the velocities...

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