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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

Block diagram of ROS-Industrial packages


The following diagram a simple block diagram representation of ROS-I packages, which are organized on top of ROS. We can see the ROS-I layer on top of the ROS layers. We can see a brief description of each of the layers for better understanding. The following diagram is taken from ROS-I wiki page (http://wiki.ros.org/Industrial).

Figure 2: The block diagram of ROS-Industrial

  • The ROS GUI: This layer includes the ROS plugin-based GUI tools layer, which consists of tools such as RViz, rqt_gui, and so on

  • The ROS-I GUI: These GUIs are standard industrial UI for working with industrial robots which may be implemented in the future

  • The ROS Layer: This is the base layer in which all communications are taking place

  • The MoveIt! Layer: The MoveIt! layer provides a direct solution to industrial manipulators in planning, kinematics, and pick and place

  • The ROS-I Application Layer: This layer consists of an industrial process planner, which is used to plan what is...