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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

Setting up Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 14.04.3


Eclipse needs Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in order to work. The following command can install JRE in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install default-jre

The first step is to download the latest eclipse IDE. We can get the latest version of Eclipse at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=linux.

Figure 1: Eclipse IDE download page

Download and extract the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers that is marked on the preceding image. Extract the Eclipse archive file using the following command. Here we are using Eclipse mars for Linux 64 bit:

$ tar -xvzf eclipse-cpp-<name_version>-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

We will get a folder called eclipse after extraction. Copy the eclipse folder to the /opt folder using the following command:

$ sudo cp -r eclipse /opt/

Create a desktop file for the eclipse for accessing from the Ubuntu search bar:

$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Copy and paste the following content to this file. This file consists...