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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

Setting up ROS web packages on ROS Kinetic


In this section, we are going to see how to set up the previously mentioned libraries on our PC.

Installing rosbridge_suite

We can install rosbridge_suite using apt-get or build from the source code. First, let's see how to install it via apt-get.

Here are the commands to install it:

$ sudo apt-get update

On ROS Kinetic:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rosbridge-suite

On ROS Indigo:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosbridge-suite

If you are looking for the latest package, you can clone it and install it.

You can switch to your catkin workspace's src folder and clone the source code using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite

After cloning the folder, you can use catkin_make:

$ catkin_make

If you encounter any dependency issues, install that package too.

Now we can work with the rosbridge client libraries roslibjs, ros2djs, and ros3djs.

Setting up rosbridge client libraries

To store all these library files, you can...