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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

Integration and final run


We are almost done! But how to test this teleop tool? We can create some launch file that can start all these nodes and work with some robot simulation. The gesture_teleop/launch folder has three launch files. Let's take a look at them.

The gesture_teleop.launch file is a generic launch file that can be used for any robot. The only thing we need to edit is the command velocity topic. Here is the definition of this launch file:

     <launch> 
        <param name="teleop_topic" value="/cmd_vel"/> 
        <rosparam command="load" file="$(find 
           gesture_teleop)/config/teleop_config.yaml"/>   
      <node name="rosserial_server_node" pkg="rosserial_python"   
          type="serial_node.py" args="$(arg port)" output="screen"/>      
      <node name="gesture_teleop_node" pkg="gesture_teleop"   
          type="gesture_teleop.py" output="screen"/> 
     </launch> 

This launch file defines teleop_topic. You can change the command...