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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

Creating a launch file for the navigation stack


Now we have all the files created and the navigation stack is configured. To run everything, we are going to create a launch file. Create a new file in the chapter6_tutorials/launch folder, and put the following code in a file with the name move_base.launch:

<launch> 
  <!-- Run the map server --> 
  <node name="map_server" pkg="map_server" type="map_server" 
   args="$(find chapter6_tutorials)/maps/map.yaml" output="screen" 
   /> 
  <include file="$(find amcl)/examples/amcl_diff.launch" /> 
  <node pkg="move_base" type="move_base" respawn="false" 
   name="move_base" output="screen">    <rosparam file="$(find 
     chapter6_tutorials)/launch/costmap_common_params.yaml" 
     command="load" ns="global_costmap" />    <rosparam file="$(find 
     chapter6_tutorials)/launch/costmap_common_params.yaml" 
     command="load" ns="local_costmap" />    <rosparam file="$(find...