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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

By : Anil Mahtani, Aaron Martinez, Enrique Fernandez Perdomo, Luis Sánchez, Lentin Joseph
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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

By: Anil Mahtani, Aaron Martinez, Enrique Fernandez Perdomo, Luis Sánchez, Lentin Joseph

Overview of this book

This learning path is designed to help you program and build your robots using open source ROS libraries and tools. We start with the installation and basic concepts, then continue with the more complex modules available in ROS, such as sensor and actuator integration (drivers), navigation and mapping (so you can create an autonomous mobile robot), manipulation, computer vision, perception in 3D with PCL, and more. We then discuss advanced concepts in robotics and how to program using ROS. You'll get a 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. We'll go 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 beginner, intermediate, and expert ROS robotics applications inside! It includes content from the following Packt products: ? Effective Robotics Programming with ROS - Third Edition ? Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming ? ROS Robotics Projects
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Preface
Bibliography
Index

Setting up Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 14.04.3


Eclipse needs Java RuntimeEnvironment (JRE) in order to work. The following command can install JRE in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install default-jre

The first step is to download the latest eclipse IDE. We can get the latest version of Eclipse at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=linux.

Figure 1: Eclipse IDE download page

Download and extract the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers that is marked on the preceding image. Extract the Eclipse archive file using the following command. Here we are using Eclipse mars for Linux 64 bit:

$ tar -xvzf eclipse-cpp-<name_version>-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

We will get a folder called eclipse after extraction. Copy the eclipse folder to the/opt folder using the following command:

$ sudo cp -r eclipse /opt/

Create a desktop file for the eclipse for accessing from the Ubuntu search bar:

$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Copy and paste the following content to this file. This file consists of the location...