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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

Working with MoveIt! configuration of ABB robots


We will work with the motion planning of the popular ABB industrial robot models such as IRB 2400 and IRB 6640. The following are the images of these two robots and their specifications.

Figure 11: ABB IRB 2400 and IRB 6640

The arm specification of the IRB 2400-10 and 6640-130 models are given in the following table:

Robot

IRB 2400-10

IRB 6640-130

Working radius

1.55 m

3.2 m

Payload

12 kg

130 kg

Weight

380 kg

1310-1405 kg

Footprint

723x600 mm

1107 x 720 mm

To work with ABB packages, clone the ROS packages of the robot into the catkin workspace. We can use the following command to do this task:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros-industrial/abb

We can also install packages using the Ubuntu binary packages. The following package will install a complete set of ABB robot packages:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-<distro>-abb

Build the source packages using catkin_make and the following command will launch ABB IRB 6640 in RViz...