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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

Installing ROS-Industrial packages of universal robotic arm


The Universal Robots (http://www.universal-robots.com/) is an industrial robot manufacturer based in Denmark. The company mainly manufactures three arms UR3, UR5, and UR10.

The robots are shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7: UR-3, UR-5, and UR-10 robots

The smaller one is UR-3, UR-5 is the one in the center, and the big one is UR-10. The specifications of these robots are given in the following table:

Robot

UR-3

UR-5

UR-10

Working radius

500 mm

850 mm

1300 mm

Payload

3 kg

5 kg

10 kg

Weight

11 kg

18.4 kg

28.9 kg

Footprint

118 mm

149 mm

190 mm

 

We are mainly discussing ROS interfacing of UR-5 and UR-10 using ROS-I packages.

We can install the packages of these robots and can work with the MoveIt! interface and simulation interface of these robots in Gazebo.

Installing the ROS interface of universal robots

We can install the latest packages of the universal robot using the source installation.

Create a workspace for the industrial robot packages called...