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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 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 is an experienced and enthusiastic robotic software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in different robotic fields, from mobile robotics (aerial and ground) to industrial and advanced manipulation. His background is in computer science. After university studies, he got a PhD in robotics from the University of Naples Federico II, where he could participate in various research and industrial projects in different robotics fields. Currently, he is a researcher at Eurecat, the technology center of Catalonia.
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Preface
1. Part I: ROS 2 Programming and Simulation
2. Introduction to ROS 2 FREE CHAPTER 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

Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter, you will need to have a computer/embedded board (e.g., Raspberry Pi, Jetson boards, etc.) with any OS with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in WSL2, a VM, Docker, or a real machine itself. The reference materials for this chapter can be found in the Chapter03 folder of the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-ROS-2-for-Robotics-Programming/tree/main/Chapter03.

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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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Jonathan is an experienced and enthusiastic robotic software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in different robotic fields, from mobile robotics (aerial and ground) to industrial and advanced manipulation. His background is in computer science. After university studies, he got a PhD in robotics from the University of Naples Federico II, where he could participate in various research and industrial projects in different robotics fields. Currently, he is a researcher at Eurecat, the technology center of Catalonia.
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