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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

About the Reviewer

Shweta Gupte is an embedded systems engineer with 4 years of experience in the robotics field. She has worked with robots both at the software level and at the low-level hardware interface. She has experience in working with embedded system design, RTOS, microcontroller programming and low-level robot interfaces , motion planning, and computer vision.

Shweta has experience programming in C, embedded C, Java, MATLAB, and microcontroller assembly language. She has worked with low-level controllers, including the Renesas RX62, Renesas QSK, Arduino, PIC, and Rasberry Pi.

Currently, she is working at Mathworks to develop MATLAB and Simulink products for robotics and embedded targets, including developing automated test beds and hardware testing. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunication. Her interests include playing with low-cost microcontroller-based robots and quadrotors. She likes to spend her spare time rock climbing and fostering rescued dogs.