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Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

By : Lentin Joseph
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Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

By: Lentin Joseph

Overview of this book

Robot Operating System (ROS) is one of the most popular robotics software frameworks in research and industry. It has various features for implementing different capabilities in a robot without implementing them from scratch. This book starts by showing you the fundamentals of ROS so you understand the basics of differential robots. Then, you'll learn about robot modeling and how to design and simulate it using ROS. Moving on, we'll design robot hardware and interfacing actuators. Then, you'll learn to configure and program depth sensors and LIDARs using ROS. Finally, you'll create a GUI for your robot using the Qt framework. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a clear idea of how to integrate and assemble everything into a robot and how to bundle the software package.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

This chapter was about the fundamental concepts of differential drive robots, and looked at how you can derive the kinematics equations of such robots. At the start of the chapter, we saw the basics of differential drive robots, and then we discussed the forward kinematics equations that are used in these robots. These equations were explained using diagrams. After looking at forward kinematics equations, we looked at the inverse kinematics equations for differential drive robots. We also looked at the basics of inverse kinematics equations.

In the next chapter, we will see how we can create a simulation of the autonomous mobile robot using ROS and Gazebo.