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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

Best practices in ROS


This section gives you a brief idea of the best practices that can be followed when we develop something with ROS. ROS provides detailed tutorials about its QA (Quality Assurance) process. QA process provides a detailed developers guide which mentions C++ and Python code style guides, naming conventions, and so on.

First we can discuss the ROS C++ coding styles.

ROS C++ coding style guide

ROS C++ nodes are following a coding style to make the code more readable, debuggable, and maintainable. If the code is properly styled, it will be very easy to re-use and contribute to the current code. In this section, we can quickly go through some commonly used coding styles.

Standard naming conventions used in ROS

Here we are using the text Helloworld to demonstrate the naming patterns we are using in ROS:

  • HelloWorld: This name starts with an uppercase letter, and each new word starts with an uppercase letter with no space or underscores.
  • helloWorld: In this naming method, the first...