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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

By : Lentin Joseph
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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

By: Lentin Joseph

Overview of this book

The area of robotics is gaining huge momentum among corporate people, researchers, hobbyists, and students. The major challenge in robotics is its controlling software. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a modular software platform to develop generic robotic applications. This book discusses the advanced concepts in robotics and how to program using ROS. It starts with 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. After discussing robot manipulation and navigation in robots, you will get to grips with the interfacing I/O boards, sensors, and actuators of ROS. One of the essential ingredients of robots are vision sensors, and an entire chapter is dedicated to the vision sensor, its interfacing in ROS, and its programming. You will discuss the hardware interfacing and simulation of complex robot to ROS and ROS Industrial (Package used for interfacing industrial robots). Finally, you will get to know the best practices to follow when programming using ROS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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.

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