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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 the project


Let's set up the project. To finish this project, you may need the following electronic components. You can see the component name and the link to buy it from the following table:

No

Name

Link

1

Arduino Mega - 2560 with USB cable

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11061

2

MPU - 9250 breakout

https://amzn.com/B00OPNUO9U

3

Male to Female jumper wires

https://amzn.com/B00PBZMN7C

4

Hand glove

https://amzn.com/B00WH4NXLA

You can use any Arduino having I2C communication. You can also use MPU - 6050 /9150, both of which are compatible with this project. A few words about the MPU - 9250 IMU: it is a 9-axis motion tracking device consisting of a gyro, accelerometer, and compass. MPU - 6050/9150/9250 models have an inbuilt Digital Motion Processor (DMP), which can fuse the accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer values to get accurate 6DOF/9DOF motion components. In this project, we are only taking the yaw and pitch rotation components.

Note

If you want...