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ROS Robotics Projects

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ROS Robotics Projects

Overview of this book

Robot Operating System is one of the most widely used software frameworks for robotic research and for companies to model, simulate, and prototype robots. Applying your knowledge of ROS to actual robotics is much more difficult than people realize, but this title will give you what you need to create your own robotics in no time! This book is packed with over 14 ROS robotics projects that can be prototyped without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introduction of ROS and its installation procedure. After discussing the basics, you’ll be taken through great projects, such as building a self-driving car, an autonomous mobile robot, and image recognition using deep learning and ROS. You can find ROS robotics applications for beginner, intermediate, and expert levels inside! This book will be the perfect companion for a robotics enthusiast who really wants to do something big in the field.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ROS Robotics Projects
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up ROS web packages on ROS Kinetic


In this section, we are going to see how to set up the previously mentioned libraries on our PC.

Installing rosbridge_suite

We can install rosbridge_suite using apt-get or build from the source code. First, let's see how to install it via apt-get.

Here are the commands to install it:

$ sudo apt-get update

On ROS Kinetic:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rosbridge-suite

On ROS Indigo:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosbridge-suite

If you are looking for the latest package, you can clone it and install it.

You can switch to your catkin workspace's src folder and clone the source code using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite

After cloning the folder, you can use catkin_make:

$ catkin_make

If you encounter any dependency issues, install that package too.

Now we can work with the rosbridge client libraries roslibjs, ros2djs, and ros3djs.

Setting up rosbridge client libraries

To store all these library files...