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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

Preparing to fly your quadrotor


Some quadrotors can be dangerous if flown carelessly. Depending on the size, weight, and power of the quadrotor, collisions with property, people, or pets can cause serious damage. At the very least, crashes of your quadrotor can damage the craft and end your flying career until you purchase a new one or repair the damaged one.

Although this book is not about flying quadrotors, we believe that some discussion of good flying practice is necessary. The discussion will be particularly helpful to new pilots.

Since this chapter is not about flying the quadrotor but how ROS is used to control the craft, we will refer you to various websites on the Internet. Searching for How to fly a quadrotor or How to fly a quadcopter will yield over one million hits. Better to refine the search and specify the type of quadrotor you wish to fly.

Many websites present articles on flying quadrotors. For example, various tutorials are available at the following websites: