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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 ROS development environment in Eclipse IDE


In this section, we can see the necessary settings that we need to do for compiling ROS C++ nodes in Eclipse. There are several methods available to configure ROS development environment in Eclipse. We are going to see one of the tested methods that is used to set the ROS environment.

Global settings in Eclipse IDE

Following are the global settings that we have to do in Eclipse IDE. We don't need to do these settings for each project. These are only one-time settings.

  • Launch Eclipse IDE from the Ubuntu search bar.
  • Go to Window | Preferences. from the Preferences Window, choose C/C++ | Build | Settings and then choose the Discovery tab. Select CDT GCC Build Output Parser [Shared]. Select the Compiler command pattern to (.*gcc)|(.*[gc]\+\+)|(.*clang). Also check the Project option that is a part of Container to keep discovered entries. Click on the Apply button and then on the OK button to confirm the settings. These settings enable eclipse to...