Here is the link to download a trial or purchase the Robotics Toolbox in MATLAB (https://in.mathworks.com/products/robotics.html). This toolbox is compatible with MATLAB version 2013 onward. If you don't have MATLAB, you can test the chapter's code using a trial version; if you have it, buy or download a trial version of Robotic Toolbox.
After setting up Robotics Toolbox in MATLAB, we can start working on the important functions of MATLAB that are used to interact with a ROS network. Let's look at them with examples.
Before running a ROS node, we have to run the roscore
command, right? The roscore
command will start a ROS master, and other ROS nodes can find each other through it. In MATLAB, instead of the roscore
command, we can use the rosinit
function to start a ROS master.
Figure 2 : The rosinit function in MATLAB
The rosinit
function can start a ROS master and a global node that is connected to the...