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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

Installing ROS-Industrial packages


Installing ROS-I packages can be done using package managers or building from the source code. If we have installed the ros-desktop-full installation, we can use the following command to install ROS-Industrial packages on Ubuntu 14.04.3. The following command will install ROS-Industrial packages on ROS Indigo:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-industrial-core ros-indigo-open-industrial-ros-controllers

The preceding command will install the core packages of ROS-Industrial packages. The industrial-core stack includes the following set of ROS packages:

  • industrial-core: This stack contains packages and libraries for supporting industrial robotic systems. The stack consists of nodes for communicating with industrial robot controllers, industrial robot simulators, and also provides ROS controllers for industrial robots.

  • industrial_deprecated: This package contains nodes, launch files, and so on that are going to be deprecated. The files inside this package will...