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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

By : Lentin Joseph
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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

By: Lentin Joseph

Overview of this book

The area of robotics is gaining huge momentum among corporate people, researchers, hobbyists, and students. The major challenge in robotics is its controlling software. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a modular software platform to develop generic robotic applications. This book discusses the advanced concepts in robotics and how to program using ROS. It starts with deep overview of the ROS framework, which will give you a clear idea of how ROS really works. During the course of the book, you will learn how to build models of complex robots, and simulate and interface the robot using the ROS MoveIt motion planning library and ROS navigation stacks. After discussing robot manipulation and navigation in robots, you will get to grips with the interfacing I/O boards, sensors, and actuators of ROS. One of the essential ingredients of robots are vision sensors, and an entire chapter is dedicated to the vision sensor, its interfacing in ROS, and its programming. You will discuss the hardware interfacing and simulation of complex robot to ROS and ROS Industrial (Package used for interfacing industrial robots). Finally, you will get to know the best practices to follow when programming using ROS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS-MoveIt!

In the previous chapter, we covered ROS navigation stack and interfacing a mobile robotic hardware to the navigation stack. Similarly, in this chapter, we are going to cover the capabilities of MoveIt!, such as collision avoidance, perception using 3D sensors, grasping, picking, and placing. After this, we will see the interfacing of a robotic manipulator hardware to MoveIt!.

The following are the main topics discussed in this chapter:

  • Motion planning of arm using MoveIt! C++ APIs

  • Working with collision checking in robot arm using MoveIt!

  • Working with perception in MoveIt! and Gazebo

  • Understanding grasping using the moveit_simple_grasps ROS package

  • Simple robot pick and place using MoveIt!

  • Understanding Dynamixel ROS servo controllers for robot hardware interfacing

  • Interfacing 7-DOF Dynamixel based robotic arm to ROS MoveIt!

In Chapter 3, Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo and Chapter 4, Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack...