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ROS Robotics By Example

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ROS Robotics By Example

Overview of this book

The visionaries who created ROS developed a framework for robotics centered on the commonality of robotic systems and exploited this commonality in ROS to expedite the development of future robotic systems. From the fundamental concepts to advanced practical experience, this book will provide you with an incremental knowledge of the ROS framework, the backbone of the robotics evolution. ROS standardizes many layers of robotics functionality from low-level device drivers to process control to message passing to software package management. This book provides step-by-step examples of mobile, armed, and flying robots, describing the ROS implementation as the basic model for other robots of these types. By controlling these robots, whether in simulation or in reality, you will use ROS to drive, move, and fly robots using ROS control.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
ROS Robotics By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up to control a real TurtleBot


The TurtleBot system consists of the TurtleBot base and its netbook that rides along with the TurtleBot and a separate remote computer that is used to control the robot. The netbook and computer communicate wirelessly once a network connection is established. This section describes the setup of the system, including the network.

A brief overview of the steps to set up and test the TurtleBot are as follows:

  1. Set up the netbook with Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS Indigo, and then load the TurtleBot software packages.

  2. Set up the remote computer with similar software.

  3. Test the TurtleBot in the standalone mode to assure proper operation.

  4. Create the network of computers, being careful to define the TurtleBot netbook as the ROS Master to the remote computer.

  5. Test the TurtleBot by communicating with commands wirelessly from the remote computer to the netbook of the TurtleBot.

The ROS wiki describes the installation of the ROS software for the TurtleBot netbook at:

http://wiki...